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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