As of today, the xSNMP Management Pack Suite version 1.1.0 has been downloaded 1000 times! Thanks to everyone who has provided test feedback and comments. There are more updates and feature enhancements in the works.
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I was recently asked a question on this topic, and I thought it was worth sharing. In this post, I described discovering Oracle processes with enumerations of instances of the SCX_UnixProcess class that are filtered on the values of the “Parameters” property. The question I was asked involved a problem with a similar discovery process [...]
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I am in the process of putting the finishing touches on the Oracle SCX Management Pack that I have described in several recent posts (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4) and will soon be moving on to finishing the documentation for the management pack. This post is intended to provide a preview of the [...]
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While the vast majority of the rules and monitors in the Oracle SCX management pack (part 1, part 2, part 3) that I am working on involve the basic form of a SQL query data source (see part 2) that queries a specific parameter value to evaluate the result, there are two areas of monitoring that required discovery [...]
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While I’m finalizing some work on the Oracle SCX management pack, I wanted to interrupt that series of posts to make a post walking through the use of one of the OpsMgr R2 PowerShell modules –something that I have been meaning to write up for some time. The addition of native PowerShell modules was one of [...]
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Continuing on with the development of a management pack for monitoring Oracle database servers on a UNIX/Linux platform (part 1, part 2), I will describe in this post some of the characteristics and methodology of the class structure and object discoveries. Class Structure To start the class structure, I defined a few arbitrary abstract classes [...]
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In the first of my posts regarding development of an UNIX/Linux Cross-Platform management pack for monitoring of Oracle, I described the creation of two custom probe action modules for WSMan Invoke Action and Shell Command Execution operations. In this post, I will describe the creation of a third custom Probe Action for executing SQL queries [...]
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After weeks of pilot testing, the xSNMP Suite version 1.1.0 is ready for public beta release. In addition to some bug fixes and feature enhancements, this release includes four completely new management packs: xSNMP Juniper-NetScreen MP: Implements comprehensive monitoring of NetScreen firewall devices xSNMP NetApp MP: Implements comprehensive monitoring of NetApp storage devices xSNMP Sun Hardware MP: Implements [...]
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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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