With the introduction of IBM Monitoring V8 a complete new user interface has been introduced and the agents also changed in the way how communicating with the server.
That implies, that all existing Agent Builder solutions you created have also to change. Agents created for your ITM V6 deployment have also to be adopted.
In this article I want to give a sample for one of my agent builder solutions, I’ve created for OpenVPN. I extend the solution in that way, that I can use it under ITM V6 as well as under APM V8.
The work to be performed is pretty limited. The documentation describes a few major prerequisites, to successfully deploy your agent to a IBM Performance Management infrastructure:
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A minimum of one attribute group to be used generate an agent status overview dashboard.
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These single row attribute group (or groups) will be used to provide the four other required fields for this overview
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A status indicator for the overall service quality
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A port number, where the service is provided
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A host name where the agent service located
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An IP address where the monitored service resides
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For more details, please consult the documentation.
In my situation, these attributes were not provided with my ITM V6 agent builder solution. So I expanded my existing solution:
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Changing the version number of my agent builder solution (optional)
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Create a new data source “openvpnstatus_sh”, which is a script data provider delivering one single line with all attributes defined to it.
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The attribute “ReturnCode” will be used later on to describe the overall status of my OpenVPN server. So I have to define the good value and the bad value (see documentation for more details)
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Make sure, that the check box under Self Describing Agent is activated.
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Run the Dashboard Setup Wizard to produce the dashboard views
Please make sure, that you checked “Show agent components in the dashboard”! Otherwise…
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Now you can select the different values:
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Status
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Additional attributes for the summary widget
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Select the attribute groups to be displayed in the details view for the agent
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