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Organization:

Zenoss, Inc.

Name:

ZenPacks.zenoss.HpuxMonitor

HP-UX ZenPack

This ZenPack provides status and performance monitoring of HP-UX.

Support

This ZenPack is included with commercial versions of Zenoss. Enterprise support for this ZenPack is provided to active Zenoss customers.

Releases

Version 2.0.1-Download: Released on 2016/09/06: Compatible with Zenoss Resource Manager 4.2.x, Zenoss Resource Manager 5.0.x - 5.1.x

Version 2.0.2-Download: Released on 2017/05/09: Compatible with Zenoss Resource Manager 4.2.x, Zenoss Resource Manager 5.0.x - 5.1.x

The ZenPacks.zenoss.HpuxMonitor ZenPack uses Secure Shell (SSH) to monitor HP-UX hosts.

This ZenPack models and monitors devices placed in the /Server/SSH/HP-UX device class (or /Server/SSH/HP-UX/Itanium if appropriate) by running commands and parsing the output.

Features

The features added by this ZenPack can be summarized as follows. They are each detailed further below.

  • Initial discovery and periodic remodeling of relevant components.
  • Performance monitoring.

This ZenPack provides:

  • File system and process monitoring
  • Network interfaces and route modeling
  • CPU utilization information
  • Hardware information (memory, number of CPUs, machine serial numbers, model numbers)
  • OS information (OS level command style information)
  • Installed software information

Discovery

Standard device components will be automatically discovered through the HP-UX server address, username and password you provide. The properties and relationships will be periodically updated by modeling.

The components, relations, and attributes will be updated on Zenoss' normal remodeling interval, which defaults to every 12 hours.

Performance Monitoring

The following metrics will be collected every 5 minutes by default.

  • Default OS performance Metrics

    • Device

      • sysUptime
      • laLoadInt1
      • laLoadInt5
      • laLoadInt15
      • ssCpuIdle
      • ssCpuSystem
      • ssCpuUser
      • ssCpuInterrupt
      • io_reads_and_writes
      • percentMemUsed
      • percentSwapUsed

    • FileSystem

      • availBlocks
      • availInodes
      • totalBlocks
      • totalInodes
      • usedBlocks
      • usedInodes
      • percentInodesUsed

    • OSProcess

      • ps_cpu
      • ps_mem
      • ps_count

    • ethernetCsmacd

      • ifInErrors
      • ifInOctets
      • ifInPackets
      • ifOutErrors
      • ifOutOctets
      • ifOutPackets

Usage

Note: If using a distributed collector setup, SSH requires firewall access (default of port 22) from the collector to the monitored server.

Set HP-UX Server Monitoring Credentials

All HP-UX servers must have a device entry in an organizer below the /Devices/Server/SSH/HP-UX device class.

Note: The SSH monitoring feature will attempt to use key-based authentication before using a configuration properties password value.

  1. Navigate to the device class or device.

    • If applying changes to a device class:
      1. Select the class in the devices hierarchy.
      2. Click Details.
      3. Select Configuration Properties.
    • If applying changes to a device:
      1. Click the device in the device list.
      2. Select Configuration Properties.

  2. Verify the credentials for the service account to access the service.

    HP-UX Configuration Properties | Name | Description | |:-----------------|:-------------------------------------------------------------| | zCommandUsername | HP-UX user with privileges to gather performance information | | zCommandPassword | Password for the HP-UX user |

  3. Click Save to save your changes.

Add an HP-UX Server

The following procedure assumes that the credentials have been set.

  1. From Infrastructure -> Devices, select Add a Single Device.

  2. Enter the following information in the dialog:

    Adding HP-UX Device Information | Name | Description | |:-------------|:--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Name or IP | HP-UX host to model | | Device Class | /Server/SSH/HP-UX or /Server/SSH/HP-UX/Itanium | | Model Device | Select this option unless adding a device with username/password different than found in the device class. If you do not select this option, then you must add the credentials, and then manually model the device. |

  3. Click Add Device to add the device.

Troubleshooting

This ZenPack requires the following collector process to be running:

Required Collectors

Type Name
Modeler zenmodeler
Performance Collector zencommand

Itanium Device Class

The Devices/Server/SSH/HP-UX/Itanium device class is intended to be used when monitoring Intel Itanium-based hardware. This device class uses some different commands to obtain Itanium-related data.

Resolving CHANNEL_OPEN_FAILURE Issues

The zencommand daemon's log file ($ZENHOME/collector/zencommand.log) may show messages stating:

ERROR zen.SshClient CHANNEL_OPEN_FAILURE: Authentication failure WARNING:zen.SshClient:Open of command failed (error code 1): open failed

If the sshd daemon's log file on the remote device is examined, it may report that the MAX_SESSIONS number of connections has been exceeded and that it is denying the connection request. At least in the OpenSSH daemons, this MAX_SESSIONS number is a compile-time option and cannot be reset in a configuration file.

To work around this limitation of the sshd daemon, use the configuration property zSshConcurrentSessions to control the number of connections created by zencommand to the remote device.

  1. Navigate to the device or device class in the Zenoss platform interface.

    • If applying changes to a device class:
      1. Select the class in the devices hierarchy.
      2. Click Details.
      3. Select Configuration Properties.
    • If applying changes to a device:
      1. Click the device in the device list.
      2. Select Configuration Properties.

  2. Apply an appropriate value for the maximum number of sessions.

    Concurrent SSH Configuration Properties | Name | Description | |:-----------------------|:---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | zSshConcurrentSessions | Maximum number of sessions supported by the remote device's MAX_SESSIONS parameter. Common values for AIX are 2 or 10. |

  3. Click Save to save your changes.

Resolving Timeout Issues

The zencommand daemon's log file ($ZENHOME/collector/zencommand.log) may show messages stating:

WARNING:zen.zencommand:Command timed out on device device_name: command

If this occurs, it usually indicates that the remote device has taken too long to return results from the commands. To increase the amount of time for devices to return results, change the configuration property zCommandCommandTimeout to a larger value.

  1. Navigate to the device or device class in the Zenoss platform interface.

    • If applying changes to a device class:
      1. Select the class in the devices hierarchy.
      2. Click Details.
      3. Select Configuration Properties.
    • If applying changes to a device:
      1. Click the device in the device list.
      2. Select Configuration Properties.

  2. Apply an appropriate value for the command timeout.

    SSH Timeout Configuration Properties | Name | Description | |:-----------------------|:-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | zCommandCommandTimeout | The number of seconds to wait for commands to complete on the remote device. |

  3. Click Save to save your changes.

Notes

The HP-UX machines may require updating /etc/PATH

You may want only one of the cpu or cpu_itanium plugins. Listing the PA-RISC or Itanium processors requires root access on the HP-UX to call /usr/bin/adb. Alternatively, the command strings can be modified to use sudo. Sudo can be installed from http://hpux.connect.org.uk/ftp/hpux/Sysadmin/sudo-1.8.0/

Some modeler commands depend on the "machinfo" command, which may need to be installed on the target HP-UX device

Known Issues

Limitations

Changes

2.0.2

  • Update processes parser for changes CommandParser (ZPS-711)

2.0.1

  • Fix modeling "ValueError" when swap volumes are disabled (ZEN-23286)
  • Add common datapoint aliases (ZEN-24619)

2.0.0

  • conversion to YAML definitions and ZenPackLib
  • More user friendly graph legends (ZEN-22432)
  • Lowered default zSshConcurrentSessions to 5 (ZEN-22431)
  • Changed event class for High Load threshold (ZEN-22433)