In my last post, I described the new UNIX/Linux Shell Command templates in OpsMgr 2012, and provided a walkthrough on creating a Management Pack for monitoring BIND DNS servers on Linux. In this post, I will provide more detail on the nuts and bolts of the Shell Command templates, as well as a list of [...]
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Many of the OpsMgr authoring examples for UNIX/Linux monitoring that I have described on this blog are based on the use of the WSMan Invoke modules to execute shell commands. This is a really powerful mechanism to extend the capabilities of Operations Manager monitoring, and the 2012 version of Operations Manager includes a new set of templates [...]
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In Operations Manager, custom rules and monitors can be used to extensively build on the out-of-the-box Management Pack contents. Unfortunately, this kind of custom authoring for UNIX/Linux monitoring carried a steep learning curve with OpsMgr 2007 R2. However, the 2012 release of Operations Manager has some new features to enable many common UNIX/Linux authoring scenarios [...]
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The OpsMgr UNIX/Linux monitoring team at Microsoft is currently investigating an issue that results in heartbeat failures on Operations Manager UNIX/Linux agents after the security update KB2585542 is applied to a Management Server or Gateway. This update fixes a vulnerability in SSL/TLS1.0, but appears to cause WS-Management connections to UNIX/Linux agents to fail. The vulnerability is described [...]
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Introduction UNIX and Linux agent monitoring in Operations Manager requires certificates to secure the SSL communication channel between the Management Servers and agents. In this post, I will provide some background information on this communication and the certificates, as well as describe an optional approach to replace the default Operations Manager certificate infrastructure with your organization’s [...]
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In case you missed it… Operations Manager 2012 Beta http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/en/us/om-vnext-beta.aspx Operations Manager 2012 Beta is available. Exciting new features for UNIX/Linux monitoring include: Discovery Wizard: All new Discovery Wizard, making it easier to deploy and discover UNIX and Linux agents Sudo support: Privileged operations (monitoring and agent maintenance) can now be performed without root privileges [...]
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Introduction In Part III of this series, I walked through creation of data sources, a discovery, and a rule for discovering dynamically-named log files and implementing an alert-generating rule for log file monitoring. In this post, I will continue to expand this Management Pack to implement performance collection rules, using WSMan Invoke methods to collect [...]
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Introduction In Part II of this series, I walked through creation of data sources, a discovery, a monitor type, and a monitor for customized ”Process Count” monitoring for discovered instances of a ”Service” class. In this post, I will continue to build on this example MP to implement dynamic log file discovery and monitoring. Dynamic Log File Discovery and Monitoring Log file [...]
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Introduction In Part I of this series, I walked through creation of a custom Management Pack for monitoring an application hosted on a UNIX or Linux server, as well as the creation of some base data sources and application discovery. In this post, I will build on this MP to implement custom process monitoring – [...]
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Introduction The OpsMgr UNIX and Linux monitoring implementation can be extended through MP authoring to implement robust system and application monitoring for UNIX/Linux servers. The most direct mechanism of extension comes in the form of the script provider, accessed with WSMan Invoke modules. The WSMan Invoke modules support three methods of invoking actions: ExecuteCommand – [...]
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