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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While this blog has been a bit quiet lately, it has not been for lack of efforts. In the next two weeks, a minor update to the xSNMP suite should be ready with a few bug-fixes and feature improvements. This update will also include three new management packs: xSNMP for Juniper Networks xSNMP for SonicWALL [...]
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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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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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