Over a series of future posts, I intend to describe my efforts to build an OpsMgr SCX Management Pack for monitoring of Oracle running on UNIX/Linux platforms. In this initial post, I will describe the first step in building this MP: creating a custom shell command invoker probe action. As I had described in this previous post, [...]
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When monitoring UNIX/Linux servers, command execution or script-based monitors can provide a great deal of flexibility in many health-checking applications. The Operations Manager 2007 R2 cross-platform agent facilitates the execution of shell command lines or executable binaries and scripts with the Microsoft.Unix.WSMan.Invoke.Probe module. In this post, I will walk through the use of this module in [...]
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After many weeks of development efforts and testing, I have made the latest beta version of the xSNMP Management Packs available for download. Before getting into any more detail, I would be remiss if I did not acknowledge the invaluable help provided by some of the volunteers who tested these management packs through all stages of development. Many [...]
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Diagram view of an HP ProCurve device: Diagram view of a Data Domain Restorer: Health Explorer view for an APC UPS: Diagram View for an HP Proliant server: Performance View for a network interface: Diagram view for a Brocade Fibre Channel Switch:
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In this post, I intend to describe some of the challenges in scaling SNMP monitoring in an Operations Manager environment to a large number of monitored objects, as well as my experiences from testing and the approaches that I took to address these challenges with the xSNMP Management Packs. Background In spite of the market [...]
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Introduction Over the past several weeks, I’ve been hard at work on some new SNMP management packs for Operations Manager 2007 R2, to replace the Cisco SNMP MP and extend similar functionality to a wide range of SNMP-enabled devices. In the next few posts, I hope to describe some of the design and development considerations related [...]
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I’ve only had my hands on the OpsMgr MP Authoring Resource Kit for about 24 hours now, but already the tools are proving to be invaluable. This post describes a problem that I was able to investigate with the Workflow Analyzer tool to determine the exact cause of the issue. Background In a management pack I’m [...]
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Microsoft has just released the Operations Manager Resource Kit, and my first impressions are very positive. I haven’t had a chance to test drive all of the tools, but the MP Best Practices Analyzer and Workflow Analyzer show great potential. The MP Best Practices Analyzer shows up under the Tools menu of the Authoring console [...]
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I have previously written about using the combination of an SnmpProbe and script probe in Operations Manager work flows to facilitate manipulation of numeric values. While this is currently the only way to perform numeric operations, there are some cases in which the only required manipulation of a numeric value is the calculation of a [...]
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In Operations Manager distributed agent-based monitoring scenarios, resource utilization of the monitoring workflows is rarely a point of major concern as the data sources and probe actions typically consume only nominal resources of the agent host system at any given time. However, in centralized monitoring scenarios, such as SNMP monitoring or wide-scale URL monitoring, the [...]
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