Oracle Solaris Monitoring

Oracle Solaris CDOM/LDOM Monitoring

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Prerequisites
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LPAR2RRD
Solaris

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LPAR2RRD monitoring performance of Oracle Solaris boxes with graphical presentation.
It is aware of Oracle Solaris Sparc and x86 virtualization. It presents data hierarchically.

Implementation is done through OS agent running on each Oracle Solaris host (LDOM/CDOM/Global Zone/Zone).
You must use LPAR2RRD agent and server 6.00+.

Solaris OS agent LDOM schema

Working modes

install OS agents on all Control Domains (CDOM) only
Install OS agents on all LDOMs and Global Zones
Install OS agents on all LDOMs and Global Zones and Zones

1) you get all CDOM data and limited performance data set about all its LDOMs (CPU/Mem/Net).
2) brings you more details about each LDOM.
3) monitoring all Zones from OS point of view.

Installation summary

Assure your network allows TCP connection initiated from OS agents to LPAR2RRD server on port 8162
Make sure your LPAR2RRD daemon is running on LPAR2RRD server
Install the OS agent on all LDOMs, CDOMs and Global Zones
Optionally install the OS agent on all Zones to get additional OS based metrics

OS agent install on a LDOM/CDOM

Create user lpar2rrd with role solaris.ldoms.read

Installation under root:

# gunzip lpar2rrd-agent-6.00-0.solaris-sparc.tar.gz
# tar xf lpar2rrd-agent-6.00-0.solaris-sparc.tar
# pkgadd -d .
  The following packages are available:
  1  lpar2rrd-agent     LPAR2RRD OS agent 6.00
  ...

Upgrade (remove original package at first then install the new one):

# pkgrm lpar2rrd-agent
# pkgadd -d .

Assign LDOM/CDOM read rights solaris.ldoms.read for the user (lpar2rrd) which will run the agent:
```
# usermod -A solaris.ldoms.read lpar2rrd
```
Assure that rights are fine, "/sbin/ldm ls -p" should not return "Authorization failed"
```
# su - lpar2rrd
$ /sbin/ldm ls -p
```

OS agent install on Zone/Global Zone

Testing connection

Test connection to the LPAR2RRD server

$ /usr/bin/perl /opt/lpar2rrd-agent/lpar2rrd-agent.pl -d <LPAR2RRD-SERVER>
  ...
  OS agent working for server: <LPAR2RRD-SERVER>
  store file for sending is /var/tmp/lpar2rrd-agent-<LPAR2RRD-SERVER>-lpar2rrd.txt

It means that data has been sent to the server, all is fine
Here is example when the agent is not able to sent data :

$ /usr/bin/perl /opt/lpar2rrd-agent/lpar2rrd-agent.pl -d <LPAR2RRD-SERVER>
  ...
  OS agent working for server: <LPAR2RRD-SERVER>
  store file for sending is /var/tmp/lpar2rrd-agent-<LPAR2RRD-SERVER>-lpar2rrd.txt
  Agent timed out after : 50 seconds /opt/lpar2rrd-agent/lpar2rrd-agent.pl:265

It means that the agent could not contact the server.
Check communication (if firewalls are open), DNS resolution of the server etc.

Schedule OS agent in Solaris lpar2rrd's crontab

CDOM: use 5 minutes schedule

# su - lpar2rrd
$ crontab -e
0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * /usr/bin/perl /opt/lpar2rrd-agent/lpar2rrd-agent.pl <LPAR2RRD-SERVER> > /var/tmp/lpar2rrd-agent.out 2>&1

Replace <LPAR2RRD-SERVER> by hostname of your LPAR2RRD server.

LDOM, Global Zone and Zone: use 1 minute schedule

# su - lpar2rrd
$ crontab -e
* * * * * /usr/bin/perl /opt/lpar2rrd-agent/lpar2rrd-agent.pl <LPAR2RRD-SERVER> > /var/tmp/lpar2rrd-agent.out 2>&1

Replace <LPAR2RRD-SERVER> by hostname of your LPAR2RRD server.

You might need to add lpar2rrd user into /etc/cron.allow (Linux) or /var/adm/cron/cron.allow (AIX) if 'crontab -e' command fails
Allow it for lpar2rrd user as root user.
```
# echo "lpar2rrd" >> /etc/cron.allow
```

You will see your Solaris boxes in the UI under Solaris folder within an hour (Ctrl-F5 in the web browser).

Install LPAR2RRD server (all under lpar2rrd user)

Definitelly use the latest available version 6.10+ where is fixed a lot of issues.

Install it:

# su - lpar2rrd
$ tar xvf lpar2rrd-7.XX.tar
$ cd lpar2rrd-7.XX
$ ./install.sh
$ cd /home/lpar2rrd/lpar2rrd

Make sure all Perl modules are in place
```
cd /home/lpar2rrd/lpar2rrd
. etc/lpar2rrd.cfg; $PERL bin/perl_modules_check.pl
```
If there is missing "LWP::Protocol::https" then check this docu to fix it

Enable Apache authorisation

su - lpar2rrd
umask 022
cd /home/lpar2rrd/lpar2rrd
cp html/.htaccess www
cp html/.htaccess lpar2rrd-cgi

Schedule to run it from lpar2rrd crontab (it might already exist there)
```
$ crontab -l | grep load.sh
$
```
Add if it does not exist as above
```
$ crontab -e

# LPAR2RRD UI
0,30 * * * * /home/lpar2rrd/lpar2rrd/load.sh > /home/lpar2rrd/lpar2rrd/load.out 2>&1 
```
Assure there is just one such entry in crontab.
You might need to add lpar2rrd user into /etc/cron.allow (Linux) or /var/adm/cron/cron.allow (AIX) if 'crontab -e' command fails
Allow it for lpar2rrd user as root user.
```
# echo "lpar2rrd" >> /etc/cron.allow
```

Initial start from cmd line:

$ cd /home/lpar2rrd/lpar2rrd
$ ./load.sh

Go to the web UI: http://<your web server>/lpar2rrd/
Use Ctrl-F5 to refresh the web browser cache.

Troubleshooting

If you have any problems with the UI then check:
(note that the path to Apache logs might be different, search apache logs in /var)

tail /var/log/httpd/error_log             # Apache error log
tail /var/log/httpd/access_log            # Apache access log
tail /var/tmp/lpar2rrd-realt-error.log    # STOR2RRD CGI-BIN log
tail /var/tmp/systemd-private*/tmp/lpar2rrd-realt-error.log # STOR2RRD CGI-BIN log when Linux has enabled private temp

Test of CGI-BIN setup
```
umask 022
cd /home/lpar2rrd/lpar2rrd/
cp bin/test-healthcheck-cgi.sh lpar2rrd-cgi/
```
go to the web browser: http://<your web server>/lpar2rrd/test.html
You should see your Apache, LPAR2RRD, and Operating System variables, if not, then check Apache logs for connected errors