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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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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Due to the ubiquity of the Net-SNMP agent, the Net-SNMP management packs can be used for a wide range of UNIX/Linux devices, and one of my primary intentions in creating these management packs was to extend them to Linux-based proprietary platforms such as Check Point Secure Platform and VMWare ESX. To that end, I am [...]
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I’ve made a few minor updates to the Net-SNMP Management Packs, available at the same download location. The changes in 1.0.1.30 are: Implemented new class: Net-SNMP Monitored Process Instance, along with rules to collect and monitor process instance CPU and memory use. Reference the MP documentation in the zip file (and the preceding post) for more information. Updated [...]
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Regardless of the operating system, monitoring of the availability and resource utilization of individual processes is a pretty standard requirement. Between WMI and PerfMon counters, this is easy on Windows systems, but doing the same on UNIX/Linux systems can be a little bit more complicated. In Operations Manager 2007 (R2) environments, there are three general [...]
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I have completed version 1.0.1 of the Net-SNMP management packs for OpsMgr 2007 R2 , and I thought I’d go ahead and share them. At this point, my testing of the management packs has been on a small development network with Sun and CentOS servers, but so far everything is looking pretty good. These management [...]
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HP provides great SCOM management packs for monitoring of Proliant servers, but only Windows agents are supported by these management packs. If you’re running ESX on Proliant servers, it takes a little bit more effort to implement monitoring of hardware status. Fortunately, HP also offers their Management Agents for ESX. Thus, all that is needed [...]
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While Sun, like most server vendors, offers a comprehensive suite of hardware monitoring agents and management tools, it can be frustrating to monitor Sun hardware using the Sun Management Agent and a third-party SNMP tool, such as System Center Operations Manager. The Sun Management Agent’s SNMP implementation builds on the Entity-MIB (http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-3155/6mip4hnov?l=en&a=view) with the SUN [...]
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