Sun Solaris Monitoring

Creating a new Sun Solaris monitor

Using the REST API to add a new Sun Solaris monitor: Click here

Follow the steps given below to create a new Sun Solaris monitor:

1. Click on Add New Monitor link under New Monitor.
2. Select Sun Solaris under Servers category.
3. Specify the Display Name of the Sun Solaris server.
4. Enter the Hostname/IP Address of the server on which Sun Solaris is running.
5. Enter the Subnet Mask of the network.
6. Select the Mode of Monitoring (Telnet, SSH or SNMP).
   • If Telnet is selected, provide the user name, password, and port number (default is 23) of the server.
   • If SSH is selected, provide the user name, password and port number (default is 22) of the server. You have an option to give Public Key Authentication (User name and Private Key). You can also give a Passphraseif the private key is protected with one.

     Note: To identify the Public/Private key, go to command prompt, type cd.SSH/ then from the list, open the files <id_dsa.pub>/<id_rsa.pub> [Public] or <id_dsa>/<id_rsa>[Private] to get the keys.

   • If SNMP is selected, provide the SNMP port at which it is running (default is 161), and SNMP Version. This requires no user name and password information. Specify the following information based on the SNMP Version selected:
     • If SNMP v1v2 is selected, specify the Community String. Default value is 'public'.
     • If SNMP v3 is selected, specify the Security Level (NoAuth,NoPriv/Auth,NoPriv/Auth,Priv), User Name and Context Name.
7. Enter the credential details like user name and password for authentication, or select the required credentials from the Credential Manager list after enabling the Select from Credential list option.
8. For Telnet/SSH mode of monitoring, specify the command prompt value, which is the last character in your command prompt. Default value is $ and possible values are >, #, etc.
   Note: In the server which you are trying to monitor through SSH, the PasswordAuthentication variable should be set as 'yes' for the data collection to happen. To ensure this, access the file /etc/ssh/sshd_config and verify the value of PasswordAuthentication variable. If it is set as 'no', modify it to 'yes'and restart the SSH Daemon using the command /etc/rc.d/sshd restart.
9. Specify the Polling interval in minutes.
10. Choose the Monitor Group from the combo box to which you want to associate the monitor (optional).
11. If you are adding a new monitor from an Admin Server, select a Managed Server.
12. Click Add Monitor(s). This discovers the Sun Solaris servers from the network and starts monitoring them.

Monitored Parameters

Go to the Monitors Category View by clicking the Monitors tab. Click on the Sun Solaris monitors under the Servers table. Displayed is the bulk configuration view of the Sun Solaris monitors distributed into three tabs:

• Availability tab displays the availability history for the past 24 hours or 30 days.
• Performance tab displays the health status and events for the past 24 hours or 30 days.
• List view tab enables you to perform bulk admin configuration.

Click on the individual monitors listed to view detailed Sun Solaris server performance metrics. The performance metrics have been categorized into the following tabs:

• Overview
• CPU
• Disk
• Network
• Storage
• System
• Hardware
• Configuration

Overview

The Overview tab displays basic monitor information along with the dials for CPU, Memory and Disk utilizations (in percentage). You can click on these dials to view detailed graphs and charts for these attributes. The graphs available are History report, hour of day report, day of week report and heat chart. These graphs can be generated for both real time and historical data.

You can use the Custom Fields option in the 'Monitor Information' section to configure additional fields for the monitor.

CPU

This tab provides the CPU usage statistics of the Linux server. The tab includes two graphs - one that displays the CPU utilization by CPU Cores and another that shows the Breakup of CPU utilization - by CPU cores. You can view additional reports by clicking the graphs present in the Breakup of CPU Utilization - by CPU cores section. These reports include the following graphs for all the CPU cores:

• Break up of CPU Utilization (%) vs Time
• User Time (%) vs Time
• System Time (%) vs Time
• I/O Wait Time (%) vs Time
• Idle Time (%) vs Time
• CPU Utilization (%) vs Time
• Interrupts/sec Vs Time

The CPU tab also shows the following performance metrics:

You can also view graphs for these attributes by selecting the necessary CPU core and then choosing the appropriate attribute from the dropdown.

Disk

This tab displays disk usage and disk I/O statistics of the Sun Solaris server.

Network

This tab displays status of all the network interfaces in the Sun Solaris server.

Note: By default, Network monitoring in SNMP mode will be disabled in Applications Manager version 173100 and above. If customers require these metrics, they can enable them on the Performance Polling page.

Storage

This tab tracks the utilization and health of Zpools, which are storage pools managed by the ZFS (Zettabyte File System).

System

This tab displays the status of any service-related or system-wide faults within the system, indicating potential issues and providing insights into critical errors affecting the entire system.

Hardware

Note: By default, Hardware monitoring in SNMP mode will be disabled in Applications Manager version 172500 and above. If customers require these metrics, they can enable them on the Performance Polling page.

Configuration

This tab displays the configuration details of the Sun Solaris monitor. However, this tab is supported only in SNMP mode.