Can run mulitple Hyperic HQ agents in one machine?

[squall_so]

Hi. I am using Hyperic HQ 4.1.2. As I have different servers run at a machine (Linux) with different IP addresses and I would like to install multiple Hyperic HQ agents in that machine for individual IP address. However, it is not successful as this message always pop when I run bin/hq-agent.sh in another HQ agent directory (if one agent is running):

Error executing remote method: Unauthorized

Is it possible to run multiple agents in 1 machines? Please help if you know the solution.

Thanks!

[admin]

Will the multiple agents be reporting to different HQ Servers?

If so, you just need to set the "agent.ListenPort" and "agent.setup.agentPort" in the agent.properties to listen on different ports.

http://support.hyperic.com/display/DOC/Agent+Properties#AgentProperties-agent.setup.agentPort
http://support.hyperic.com/display/DOC/Agent+Properties#AgentProperties-agent.listenPort

If these will be reporting to the same server, there are some additional steps you would need to take.

[excowboy]

Scott,

I would like to know how to run multiple Agents on one machine reporting to same server.

Mirko

[VishnuKumar]

I want to start 2 hyperic agents in my linux machine.
The agent which I start first is working fine and it runs with default ip(x.x.x.106) of my machine.

I created the second ip using the below comand
ifconfig eth0:1 x.x.x.109 up

When I start the second agent, I got the error in agent.log.startup as,
Agent startup error: Failed to listen at x.x.x.109:2144: Address already in use

agent.properties of my second agent is,

agent.setup.camIP=hq server ip
agent.setup.camPort=http port
agent.setup.camSSLPort=https port
agent.setup.camSecure=no
agent.setup.camLogin=username
agent.setup.camPword=password
agent.setup.agentIP=x.x.x.109
agent.setup.agentPort=2144
agent.listenIp=x.x.x.109
agent.listenPort=2144
#agent.setup.resetupTokens=no

platform.type=Linux
platform.name=test
platform.fqdn=test.com
platform.ip=x.x.x.109

Error in agent.log of second agent,

2011-11-11 11:11:00,081 DEBUG [Thread-1] [AutoinventoryCommandsServer] [scanComplete] Unable to send autoinventory platform data to server, sleeping for 15 secs before retrying. Error: Unable to communicate with server -- provider not yet setup
org.hyperic.hq.bizapp.client.AgentCallbackClientException: Unable to communicate with server -- provider not yet setup
at org.hyperic.hq.bizapp.client.AgentCallbackClient.getProvider(AgentCallbackClient.java:89)
at org.hyperic.hq.bizapp.client.AutoinventoryCallbackClient.aiSendReport(AutoinventoryCallbackClient.java:49)
at org.hyperic.hq.autoinventory.agent.server.AutoinventoryCommandsServer.scanComplete(AutoinventoryCommandsServer.java:515)
at org.hyperic.hq.autoinventory.ScanManager.scanComplete(ScanManager.java:308)
at org.hyperic.hq.autoinventory.Scanner.notifyScanComplete(Scanner.java:273)
at org.hyperic.hq.autoinventory.Scanner.start(Scanner.java:211)
at org.hyperic.hq.autoinventory.ScanManager.mainRunLoop(ScanManager.java:141)
at org.hyperic.hq.autoinventory.ScanManager.access$000(ScanManager.java:41)
at org.hyperic.hq.autoinventory.ScanManager$1.run(ScanManager.java:107)
2011-11-11 11:11:03,581 INFO [main] [AutoinventoryCommandsServer] [shutdown] Autoinventory Commands Server shut down
2011-11-11 11:11:03,581 INFO [main] [CommandsServer] [shutdown] Commands Server shut down

Any solutions???

[VishnuKumar]

The above problem can be resolved by giving the same kind of agent.properties for the first agent too.

agent.properties of first agent:

agent.setup.camIP=hq server ip
agent.setup.camPort=http port
agent.setup.camSSLPort=https port
agent.setup.camSecure=no
agent.setup.camLogin=username
agent.setup.camPword=password
agent.setup.agentIP=x.x.x.106
agent.setup.agentPort=2144
agent.listenIp=x.x.x.106
agent.listenPort=2144
agent.setup.resetupTokens=no

Earlier I didn't mention the agent.listenIp and agent.listenPort in the agent.properties of first agent.
so now we can start the multiple agents in a single machine.

[Kaonashi]

Greetings.
I was installing a second instance for Hyperic HQ in a monitoring server, here some details.

Despite of being an upper location, apparently if you want to install a second HQ server you MUST choose another path instead of "/home/hyperic" (default location by the way).

You must create another location, in my personal case "/home/hyperic2/" change it's mode to whatever you want and change the owner for the user that you will use for the installation, remember, Hyperic HQ Server installation cannot be launched by root, so, choose (or create) your user, and grant full permissions to that user for the location that you have already created.

You can install in full mode (step by step) to choose and customize values such as: ports, e-mails, keys, URLs, etc. By

BUT right there is my problem, when the installer says to me:

"Loading install configuration...
Install configuration loaded.
Preparing to install...
Validating server install configuration...
Checking server webapp port...
Checking server secure webapp port...
Verifying admin user properties
Validating server DB configuration...
Installing the server...
Unpacking server to: /home/hyperic2...
Creating server configuration files...
Copying binaries and libraries to server installation...
Copying server configuration file...
Copying server db-upgrade files...
Copying server libs...
Setting up server database...
Setting up JDBC driver...
Copying database files...
Configuring database...
Loading taskdefs...
Taskdefs loaded
Starting repopulation of configuration table...
Waiting for built-in database to start (on port 19432)...
Starting built-in database..."

Yay! Almost there, and then:

"--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
An ERROR occurred, the installation cannot continue.

An error occurred trying to start the HQ built-in database. More
information may be available in the /home/hyperic2/server-4.5/logs/hqdb.log file.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Waiting for server to stop...
Stopping built-in database...
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
An ERROR occurred, the installation cannot continue.
FATAL EXCEPTION at /software/hyperic-hq-installer-4.5/installer/data/setup.xml:493: : The following error occurred while executing this line:
/software/hyperic-hq-installer-4.5/installer/data/setup.xml:502: The following error occurred while executing this line:
/software/hyperic-hq-installer-4.5/installer/data/setup.xml:683: The following error occurred while executing this line:
/software/hyperic-hq-installer-4.5/installer/data/setup-db-PostgreSQL.xml:160: The following error occurred while executing this line:
/software/hyperic-hq-installer-4.5/installer/data/setup-db-PostgreSQL.xml:201: The following error occurred while executing this line:
/software/hyperic-hq-installer-4.5/installer/data/server.xml:125: exec returned: 1
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Deleting temporary JRE"

So I suppose that I have issues with my default backend database choice (1. Built-in Postgresql)

Could somebody help me, please?

I have even tried with mysql, but that went wrong too because I don't know which is the proper name for schemas, tables nor their structure.

Thanks in advance.

Lucho.

[silverrain]

Hi!
There's a short tutorial how to prepare a mysql database for Hyperic in the documentation: http://support.hyperic.com/display/DOC/Set+Up+HQ+Database
Once you've done that, select mysql database during the server installation process. The installation script will create all tables needed.
Good luck. :)