Thursday, June 7, 2018

Install & Configure - Synthetic Playback agent on APM v8.1.4

Prerequisites for play back agent install.

1. Firefox ESR 52.x.0

[root@apm-nms software]# yum install firefox

[root@apm-nms software]# /bin/firefox -v
Mozilla Firefox 52.8.0
[root@apm-nms software]#
[root@apm-nms software]#
[root@apm-nms software]#
[root@apm-nms software]#

2. set the repo using the command
subscription-manager repos --enable rhel-7-server-optional-rpms

[root@apm-nms agent]# subscription-manager repos --enable rhel-7-server-optional-rpms
Repository 'rhel-7-server-optional-rpms' is enabled for this system.

3. xvfb                 
yum install Xvfb
Loaded plugins: product-id, search-disabled-repos, subscription-manager

4. install this package for killall command that's being used in the /etc/init.d/xvfb script
                yum install psmisc

5. copy this script in /etc/init.d/xvfb
#!/bin/bash
#chkconfig: 345 95 50
#description: Starts xvfb on display 99
if [ -z "$1" ]; then
echo "`basename $0` {start|stop}"
    exit
fi

case "$1" in
start)
    /usr/bin/Xvfb :99 -screen 0 1280x1024x24 -ac -extension GLX&
;;

stop)
    killall Xvfb
;;
esac

6. change the permissions for xvfb
[root@apm-nms agent]# ls -ltr /etc/init.d/xvfb
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 262 Jun  7 13:27 /etc/init.d/xvfb

7. edit the /etc/hosts file and add these 2 entries to the start
127.0.0.1       localhost
10.151.26.14    apm-corp.nms.rcn.net
127.0.0.1   localhost localhost.localdomain localhost4 localhost4.localdomain4
::1         localhost localhost.localdomain localhost6 localhost6.localdomain6
~
~

8. export IGNORE_PRECHECK_WARNING=1

9. export SKIP_PRECHECK=1

10. [root@apm-nms APMADV_Agent_Install_8.1.4.0.3]# env|grep SKIP
SKIP_PRECHECK=1

11. [root@apm-nms APMADV_Agent_Install_8.1.4.0.3]# ./installAPMAgents.sh

The following products are available for installation:

    1) Monitoring Agent for Cisco UCS
    2) Monitoring Agent for DataPower
    3) Monitoring Agent for DB2
    4) Monitoring Agent for HTTP Server
    5) Monitoring Agent for IBM Integration Bus
    6) Monitoring Agent for JBoss
    7) Monitoring Agent for Linux KVM
    8) Monitoring Agent for MongoDB
    9) Monitoring Agent for WebSphere MQ
   10) Monitoring Agent for MySQL
   11) Monitoring Agent for NetApp Storage
   12) Monitoring Agent for Nodejs
   13) Monitoring Agent for OpenStack
   14) Monitoring Agent for Oracle Database
   15) Monitoring Agent for Linux OS
   16) Monitoring Agent for PHP
   17) Monitoring Agent for PostgreSQL
   18) Response Time Monitoring Agent
   19) Monitoring Agent for Ruby
   20) Monitoring Agent for SAP Applications
   21) Monitoring Agent for Siebel
   22) Monitoring Agent for Synthetic Playback
   23) Monitoring Agent for Tomcat
   24) Monitoring Agent for VMware VI
   25) Monitoring Agent for WebSphere Applications
   26) Monitoring Agent for WebLogic
   27) Monitoring Agent for WebSphere Infrastructure Manager
   28) all of the above

Type the numbers that correspond to the products that you want to install. Type "q" to quit selection.
If you enter more than one number, separate the numbers by a space or comma.

Type your selections here (For example: 1,2): 15,22

The following agents will be installed:

    Monitoring Agent for Linux OS
    Monitoring Agent for Synthetic Playback

Are your selections correct [ 1-Yes, 2-No; default is 1 ]? 1

Please specify the agent home (default: /opt/ibm/apm/agent):

The agent will be installed in /opt/ibm/apm/agent

Do you accept the license agreement(s) found in the directory /opt/software/APMADV_Agent_Install_8.1.4.0.3/licenses?

Please enter [ 1-to accept the agreement, 2-to decline the agreement ] : 1

User has accepted the license agreement(s).

    Monitoring Agent for Linux OS will be installed.
    Monitoring Agent for Synthetic Playback will be installed.

Installing Monitoring Agent for Linux OS.

Installing Monitoring Agent for Synthetic Playback.

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The following agents were installed successfully into the /opt/ibm/apm/agent directory:

Monitoring Agent for Linux OS

    Agent status:
    Agent is running. Process ID is 79114
    Server connection status: Connecting
    For more information, see the following file: /opt/ibm/apm/agent/logs/lz_ServerConnectionStatus.txt

Monitoring Agent for Synthetic Playback

    Agent status:
    Agent is not running

The installation log file is /opt/ibm/apm/agent/logs/APMADV_Agents_install.log.

For any agent that is running, the agent is configured with the default settings.

For any agent that is not running, you must configure the agent before it can be started.

To configure your agents, use the following detailed instructions:

For IBM Cloud Application Performance Management SaaS:

For IBM Cloud Application Performance Management On Premises:


As part of the configuration instructions, you will use the following commands to configure and manage each installed agent:
    Monitoring Agent for Linux OS                                /opt/ibm/apm/agent/bin/os-agent.sh start or stop or status or uninstall
    Monitoring Agent for Synthetic Playback                      /opt/ibm/apm/agent/bin/synthetic_playback-agent.sh config or start or stop or
status or uninstall

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[root@apm-nms APMADV_Agent_Install_8.1.4.0.3]#

Reboot the box
systemctl reboot

Once you have the agent installed the agent will report to the APM server automatically.
Go into APM WEBUI and check for the Linux VM

To configure the synthetic agent on the new server

[root@apm-corp bin]# ./synthetic_playback-agent.sh config
Configuring Monitoring Agent for Synthetic Playback

Edit 'Monitoring Agent for Synthetic Playback' settings? [ 1=Yes, 2=No ]  (default is: 1):

The data center name for user to select as playback point of presence.
The data center name for user to select as playback point of presence. (default is: ):corp

This parameter allows you to specify the trace level used by the Java providers.
Java trace level [ 1=Off, 2=Error, 3=Warning, 4=Information, 5=Minimum Debug, 6=Medium Debug, 7=Maximum Debug, 8=All ] (default is: 2):2

A class path that lists jars required by Java API data provider that are not included with the agent.  This class path is appended to the class
path generated by the agent.
Class path for external jars (default is: ):


Configuration completed successfully.

STOP the agent

[root@apm-corp bin]# ./synthetic_playback-agent.sh stop
Processing. Please wait...
Stopping Monitoring Agent for Synthetic Playback ...
Monitoring Agent for Synthetic Playback was stopped gracefully.

START

[root@apm-corp bin]# ./synthetic_playback-agent.sh start
Processing. Please wait...
Starting the Monitoring Agent for Synthetic Playback...
Monitoring Agent for Synthetic Playback started

SCP the FIX PACK FOR the playback agent and install it

[root@apm-corp software]# /opt/ibm/apm/agent/bin/synthetic_playback-agent.sh stop
Processing. Please wait...
Stopping Monitoring Agent for Synthetic Playback ...
Monitoring Agent for Synthetic Playback was stopped gracefully.
[root@apm-corp software]# /bin/scp dpatel@207.172.7.36:/opt/software/8.1.4.0-IBM-APM-SYNTHETIC-PLAYBACK-AGENT-XLINUX-IF0003.tar .
dpatel@207.172.7.36's password:
8.1.4.0-IBM-APM-SYNTHETIC-PLAYBACK-AGENT-XLINUX-IF0003.tar                                                   100%   46MB  57.3MB/s   00:00
[root@apm-corp software]#

tar -xvf 8.1.4.0-IBM-APM-SYNTHETIC-PLAYBACK-AGENT-XLINUX-IF0003.tar

[root@apm-corp software]# cd 8.1.4.0-IBM-APM-SYNTHETIC-PLAYBACK-AGENT-XLINUX-IF0003
[root@apm-corp 8.1.4.0-IBM-APM-SYNTHETIC-PLAYBACK-AGENT-XLINUX-IF0003]# ls -ltr
total 20
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root    95 Apr 10 02:17 patch.properties
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 13133 Apr 10 02:17 apmpatch.sh
drwxr-xr-x. 4 root root    85 Jun  7 14:09 patches
[root@apm-corp 8.1.4.0-IBM-APM-SYNTHETIC-PLAYBACK-AGENT-XLINUX-IF0003]# ./apmpatch.sh
Detected IBM Performance Management component(s) installed in /opt/ibm/apm/agent.
The patches for the following components will be installed:

        Monitoring Agent for Synthetic Playback [current version: 01000502, patched version: 01000503]

Do you want to continue [ 1-Yes, 2-No; default is "1" ]? 1
Installing patches...
Successfully installed patch for Monitoring Agent for Synthetic Playback.

systmectl reboot

Now the "corp" agent should show up when you go to synthetic script editor
schedule a script
and under location you should have two entries 1. prod and 2. Corp


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