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The Uptime Infrastructure Monitor Agent monitor determines whether an agent is running on a system that you are monitoring. For a list of the currently-supported platforms, see Monitored Application Platform Support.
Configuring Uptime Infrastructure Monitor Agent Monitors
To configure Uptime Infrastructure Monitor Agent monitors, do the following:
- In the Uptime Infrastructure Monitor Agent monitor template, complete the monitor information fields.
To learn how to configure monitor information fields, see Monitor Identification. - Complete the following options by clicking the checkbox beside each option, then specifying a warning and critical threshold.
If the thresholds that you set are exceeded, then Uptime Infrastructure Monitor generates an alert. For more information, see Configuring Warning and Critical Thresholds.- Major
The major version number of the agent. For more information, see Understanding Major and Minor Versions. - Platform
The operating system on which the agent is installed and running. - Response Time
Enter the Warning and Critical Response Time thresholds for the length of time a service check takes to complete. For more information, see Configuring Warning and Critical Thresholds.
- Major
- To save the data from the thresholds for graphing or reporting, click the Save for Graphing checkbox beside each of the metrics that you selected in step 3.
- Complete the following settings:
- Timing Settings (see Adding Monitor Timing Settings Information for more information)
- Alert Settings (see Monitor Alert Settings for more information)
- Monitoring Period settings (see Monitor Timing Settings for more information)
- Alert Profile settings (see Alert Profiles for more information)
- Action Profile settings (see Action Profiles for more information)
- Click Finish.
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Live Splunk Listener
Live Splunks are scheduled searches of Splunk queries that are saved on the Splunk server. A Live Splunk automatically runs a search, can initiate an alert, and can perform actions based on that alert. You can, for example, set up a Live Splunk to search for all critical error conditions.
The Live Splunk Listener monitor enables you to capture the information generated by a Live Splunk (from Splunk 4.x only). This monitor is very similar to the External Check monitor, and uses scripts that are bundled with Uptime Infrastructure Monitor (found in the /scripts subdirectory) to return Live Splunk information to the Monitoring Station.
To use this monitor, you must first modify the two Splunk scripts that are included with Uptime Infrastructure Monitor:
- alertUptimeStatusHandler.sh
- alertUptime.py
This pair of scripts take the following options:
- --message
A message that is returned to the Uptime Infrastructure Monitor Monitoring Station. For example, if the Live Splunk is configured to search for warning conditions, you can enter the message “Changed to WARN” . - --status
The script can return the following status codes:- 0 - OK
The services are functioning properly. - 1 - Warning
There is a potential problem with one of more of the monitored services. - 2 - Critical
There is a critical problem with one or more of the monitored services. - 3 - Unknown
There is an error in the configuration of the monitor itself, or Uptime Infrastructure Monitor cannot execute the service check.
- 0 - OK
- --monitor
The name of the Uptime Infrastructure Monitor monitor to which the information from the Live Splunk is directed.
The following is an example of the script with all of its options specified:
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alertUptimeStatusHandler.sh --message="sendmail has some traffic going through new command!"
--status=2 --monitorName="Live Splunk" |
Uptime Infrastructure Monitor captures the output from the script, which appears in the service status section of the Global Scan dashboard (see Understanding the Status of Services). The Uptime Infrastructure Monitor monitoring framework picks up any error codes and triggers the appropriate monitoring action.
Before You Begin
Before you can monitor Live Splunks generated on a Splunk server, you must do the following:
- Edit the alertUptime.py script to point to the Uptime Infrastructure Monitor Monitoring Station:
- Navigate to the /scripts directory on the Monitoring Station.
- Open the file alertUptime.py in a text editor.
Find the following entry in the file:
No Format nopanel true host = "uptime-host" port = "9996"
- Change the values for host and port to the host name and port of the Monitoring Station.
- Save and close the file.
- Edit the alertUptimeStatusHandler.sh script to configure how the Live Splunk is reported on the Monitoring Station:
- Open alertUptimeStatusHandler.sh in a text editor (found in the /scripts directory on the Monitoring Station).
- For the message option, enter a diagnostic message that accompanies a Live Splunk captured by the Uptime Infrastructure Monitor service monitor.
- For the status option, enter the status of the monitored service.
- For the monitorName option, enter the name of the service monitor that is listening to the Live Splunk.
- Save and close the file.
- Copy the alertUptimeStatusHandler.sh and alertUptime.py scripts from the Monitoring Station’s /scripts directory to the
/data/splunk/bin/scripts directory on the Splunk server. - Configure a Live Splunk. For information on configuring Live Splunks, see the Splunk user manual.
When setting up your Live Splunk, select the Run the shell script option on the configuration page. Then, enter the path to alertUptimeStatusHandler.sh in the field.
Configuring the Live Splunk Listener Monitor
To configure a Live Splunk Listener monitor, do the following:
- Complete the monitor information fields.
To learn how to configure monitor information fields, see Monitor Identification. - Complete the following settings:
- Timing Settings (see Adding Monitor Timing Settings Information for more information)
- Alert Settings (see Monitor Alert Settings for more information)
- Monitoring Period settings (see Monitor Timing Settings for more information)
- Alert Profile settings (see Alert Profiles for more information)
- Action Profile settings (see Action Profiles for more information)
- Click Finish.