hardware monitoring in CA UIM

[MADANRAJ SIVAGNANAM]

what are all the Hardware monitoring that can be done in CA UIM  ?

What are all the probes that helps in doing hardware monitoring ?

list the probe and its specific hardware that can be monitored ?

ways to do this hardware monitoring ?


Regards
AMar
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[David Michel]

Feel free to review the docops section for uim probes and compile a list, but be forewarned the list is extensive and varied. You will probably have more success if you start by identifying exactly what devices and metrics you want to monitor and go from there.

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[MADANRAJ SIVAGNANAM]

Hi David ,

I want to monitor the performance metrics like RAM and other hardware metrics in servers  . Please let me know the method and probes that are helpful  to do that .



Regards
Amar

[Franklin Ravi D'souza]

Hi Amar

Cpu/ disk / memory can be monitored using cdm probe 

Please share some examples what other hardware metrics you wish to monitor and what type of servers ?

[Luc Christiaens]

If you want to monitor metrics that are not directly available in a probe the easiest way is to find a command that gives that info, example:
=> systeminfo | findstr /C:"Total Physical Memory"
This command can be executed by logmon and you can create a QoS from this.
The other possibility is to add these type of commands in a custom probe.

[MADANRAJ SIVAGNANAM]

NIC , cpu cores ,  RAM .. FAN, Power Supply, temperature, battery, array etc. ..these are the metrics I want to collect from LINUX servers . Is that possible to get these metrics monitored in CA UIM .

[Luc Christiaens]

In that case you need to have a look at the snmpcollector probe.

[MADANRAJ SIVAGNANAM]

Hi ,

We need to configure SNMP on the server on port 162 and use the community string for discovering the device right ?


Regards
Amar

[Luc Christiaens]

Indeed, and as a first easy step you can use the snmpget probe  to have an idea of all oid's on the target device

[Franklin Ravi D'souza]

To add ,for server hardware monitoring SNMP-based probes such as snmptd can be used
For example the snmptd probe to catch traps due to fault or damaging events from the underlying server hardware device

https://docops.ca.com/ca-unified-infrastructure-management-probes/ga/en/alphabetical-probe-articles/snmptd-simple-network-management-protocol-trap-daemon-monitoring/snmptd-simple-network-management-protocol-trap-daemon-monitoring-release-notes

[David Michel]

You are talking about hardware level items so you have to work in terms of monitoring the hardware and not the OS linux. 
check the device support site to see if the server is listed, if it is not you will be limited to what you can get using the generic mibs. 
https://devicesupport.broadcom.com/

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[Stephen Danseglio]

Hardware monitoring options

As long as you can enable the SNMP agent on the Linux servers you want to monitor you can use:

SNMP-based:
- snmpcollector (NIC, CPU cores, RAM, FAN, Power Supply, temperature, battery, array, reachability, availability, etc.)
- snmptd (SNMP traps, whatever is included in the Linux OS/Standard MIBs)
- snmpget (Requires loading of MIBs/Dependent MIBs for the metrics you need to monitor)

For example:
OID                                                      Description
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrSystem Contains general system information such as uptime, number of users, and number of running processes.
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorage Contains data on memory and file system usage.
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrDevices Contains a listing of all processors, network devices, and file systems.
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrSWRun Contains a listing of all running processes.
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrSWRunPerf Contains memory and CPU statistics on the process table from HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrSWRun.
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrSWInstalled Contains a listing of the RPM database.
IF-MIB
etc.

Non-SNMP:

- cdm (server monitoring, disks and memory utilization)
- processes
- services
- dirscan (file/directory scan)
- net_connect (application service:port monitoring)
- logmon (run ANY Linux utility/command/script and parse the output, collect QOS data/generate alarms), for example see:
16 commands to check hardware information on Linux
https://www.binarytides.com/linux-commands-hardware-info/

Best Regards,
Steve

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