Monitoring with Opsview电子书

Monitoring with Opsview

Table of Contents

Monitoring with Opsview

Credits

About the Author

Acknowledgments

About the Reviewers

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Opsview Core Basics

Important concepts

Installing and configuring Opsview Core

Package-based installations

Prerequisites

Installing Opsview

Virtual appliance

On demand

Using the Opsview help system and contextual menus

Contextual menu

Opsview help system

Creating user accounts

Adding and assigning roles

Adding contacts

LDAP and Active Directory integration

Reloading

Summary

2. Basic Configuration

Configuring hosts, host groups, and host group hierarchy

Host groups

Host group hierarchy

Hosts

Host templates

Configuring service checks and service groups

Creating service checks

Active Plugin

SNMP polling

Passive

Using dependencies

Adding plugins to the system

Handling performance data

Creating and installing Opspacks

Summary

3. Advanced Configuration

Using exceptions

Creating and using keywords

Using keyword views

Creating and using host attributes

Using attributes to multiply service checks

Configuring notifications

Using shared notification profiles

Testing from the WebUI

Using the advanced host configuration

Monitoring multi-homed hosts

Using parenting for network outage detection

Automation with the REST API

Configuration

Informational objects

Wrapping up the REST API

Summary

4. Agents, Clouds, and Modules

Using agents

Adding plugins to the Linux agent

Adding plugins to the Windows agent

Agentless monitoring

SSH

SNMP and host interfaces

WMI

Virtualization and Cloud monitoring

Virtualization

Setting up vSphere monitoring

Cloud monitoring

Amazon AWS

Slicehost

Clouds on the horizon

Using core modules

NagVis

MRTG

NMIS

Summary

5. Opsview Mobile

Configuring Opsview for Opsview Mobile

Opsview Mobile on Android

Opsview Mobile on iOS

Using push notifications

Summary

6. The Three Ts

Using the tools from the utils directory

clone_host

copy_host_attributes

export_full_config

export_host_template

get_actual_command

list_unknown_devices

rename_host

test_notifications

nlcat

Testing plugins from the command line

Checking the various log files and debugging

Opsview log files

Opsviewd.log

import_ndologsd

import_perfdatarrd

Opsview-web.log

Debugging

Common agent issues

CHECK_NRPE: Error – Could not complete SSL handshake

NRPE: Command '<my command>' not defined

NRPE: Return code of 127 is out of bounds – plugin may be missing

NRPE: Return code of 255 is out of bounds

Summary

7. Designing a Monitoring Environment

Scaling

Deployments

Monitoring concepts

How to measure availability and performance

Dependencies

Thresholds

Keywords

Using notifications

Multi-homed environments

Network outages

Real path monitoring

Running your environment

Summary

8. Upgrading to Opsview Pro or Opsview Enterprise

Why upgrade?

Upgrading or fresh install

Dashboard

Prerequisites

Entitlement

Activating Opsview Pro or Enterprise

Adding additional entitlements

Summary

9. Opsview Pro Features

Autodiscovery

Firewalls

Network scan

VMware scan

SNMP traps

Configuration

SNMP trap service check

Exceptions

Rules

Matching

Multitenancy

Creating tenancies

Summary

10. Opsview Enterprise Features

Scalability

Opsview databases

Using remote databases

Distributed monitoring

Slaves

Creating a slave

Slave clusters

Service desk connectors

Installing the service desk connector

Connecting your Service Desk System

Reporting

Configuring reporting

Running reports

Types of reports

Availability

Events

Combined

Summary

11. Additional Modules

The multi-master module

The Network Analyzer module

The NetAudit module

The NetFlow module

Configuring NetFlow

Viewing NetFlow information

NetFlow and tenancy

Opsview Pro versus Opsview Enterprise

The Opsview Pro edition

The Opsview Enterprise edition

The Opsview MSP edition

Summary

12. Opsview Dashboards

Getting started with dashboards

Business dashboards

The Process Map dashlet

The keyword dashlets

The performance dashlets

Technical dashboards

The Network Map dashlet

The Metric Pie Chart dashlet

The host group dashlets

The event dashlets

The top services dashlets

The Note Pad and System Status dashlets

The NetFlow dashboard

Dashboard options

The automatically cycle option

The sharing option

Users and dashboards

Requirements

Technical dashboards

Business dashboards

The Process Map dashlet

Summary

Index