EMI - External Monitoring Interface

[Keld Mollnitz]

Hi all,

I wonder if anyone out there is familiar with the new JMX based Monitoring - External Monitoring Interface (EMI) introduced in V11.2.

http://docs.automic.com/documentation/AE/11.2/english/AE_WEBHELP/help.htm?product=awa#uczama.htm



Best regards

Keld Mollnitz
Nordea.

[thomas_berreis_automic]

Hi,

EMI is great to create statistics or monitor the AE.
That's just what we do with EMI: https://us.v-cdn.net/5019921/uploads/editor/f4/u8i56y77s0z8.png" width="1600">

[Keld Mollnitz]

Hi Thomas,

Are you also monitoring stuff like Job status and Agent status? Are you integrating EMI with any Monitoring system, e.g. IBM Tivoli Monitoring, BMC Truesight or similar ?

Regards
Keld.

[thomas_berreis_automic]

Our agents are monitored with nagios and a java plugin for EMI. The advantage is that we can monitor the authentication too.
For jobs we still use CALL objects.

[Alain Moisy]

I'm interested to know how did you manage the java plugin for EMI with Nagios. Seems that there is nothing "standard" available either from Automic or from Nagios or even somebody else.

We are trying actually to implement an external monitoring using EMI with Zabbix but it is very similar to Nagios, so a feedback from a real experience with EMI integration would be very helpful and appreciated 

Thanks and regards.

Alain

[laura_albrecht_automic]

I may need to start a new thread, but was hoping I could get some additional information here since I was initially looking for more info on EMI.  I just found out that my company does not have an enterprise monitoring solution.  This is what I am used to - something that scans / scrapes through the AE logs for certain U codes and then sends them to a central monitoring dashboard / location.  Not having this option I'm trying to figure out the best way to put some type of monitoring / escalation in place.

Is EMI what I am looking for?  Or does EMI have to integrate with some other solution?  I know that there was a solution for Automic to integrate with HP OpenView, etc.  I believe that has been replaced with EMI, but not sure if that means that I still need to have that other software and/or come up with something customized and EMI would work either way.

I am very opposed to using emails for alerts / escalation, but at this point that seems like my only option.  All ideas / suggestions / thoughts are welcome.  Thanks.

[Anon Anon]

Just for clearification - emi is just the interface from Automation Engine to any monitoring solution.

To get a glance what data it provides you can install it according to docu
link: http://docs.automic.com/documentation/AE/11.2/english/AE_WEBHELP/help.htm?product=awa#ucsacu.htm
start your emi instance and test it with javamission control - see chapter TESTING

java mission control is available with every java development kit

so everything for testing is free - just to get an impression which kinds of data can be delivered and if it could be useful for you.

[Anon Anon]

not to confuse anyone, EMI is in general for free - not just for testing :-)

[laura_albrecht_automic]

So it sounds like EMI is a solution you use to connect Automic to other monitoring software solutions - ie. BMC Patrol, HP OpenView, etc.  So if I don't have either of those - then EMI won't work for me.  

[Anon Anon]

I am also looking at the new EMI solution. Could you tell me if I understand it right? The JAVA EMI Process is running on any host and is connected to the AE System (the same way the GUI is) the EMI Process opens a Port on which the Monitoring Solution (in my case Tivoli) is connecting to geht data.

[Anon Anon]

Basically Yes :-)

You can run it on any Server with TCP/IP connection to the AE.

The EMI solution stores the specific information and makes it available for JMX clients as Java Beans. The content (the MBeans) are write protected and may only be changed from inside the AE system.

http://docs.automic.com/documentation/AE/11.2/english/AE_WEBHELP/help.htm?product=awa#ucsacu.htm?Highlight=emi

[Alain Moisy]

What about older versions of Automic (10.x, 9.x) ? Are they supported / going to be supported / never be supported ?? Many people won't migrate to 11.x or higher in the near future but the EMI is a very interesting solution for monitoring without specific tools or querying the DB directly !!

[Anon Anon]

EMI is a new Feature introduced by V11.2 - so no chance for older versions.

[ManuelMeyr606122]

Hi FrankMuffke,

We are trying to connect Nagios/Check_MK to EMI.
Now i have a few questions how to implement the EMI-Solution:

Can EMI also be started on the AE Application-Server with the following command used in ServiceManager?
java -jar emi.jar [path/to/ini/file/emi.ini]

Check_MK then has to use the following URL for collecting data, right?
service:jmx:rmi:///jndi/rmi://hostname:jmxPort/Automic

We are using 2 Application-Servers. Is it possible to start EMI on both to have a failover functionality?

Can client 0 be monitored or is there a restriction?

Thank you

[Anon Anon]

Hmm its been a while that I played with EMI, as far as I remember:

Yes

not sure

Yes

Yes