Red Hat Enterprise Linux Management Pack Guide for Operations Manager 2007 R2

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Contents
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Management Pack Guide........................................................................ 4 In This Guide................................................................................................................................. 4 What's New .................................................................................................................................. 5 Introduction to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Management Pack ............................................... 5 Supported Configurations ........................................................................................................ 6 Getting Started ............................................................................................................................. 7 Before You Import the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Management Pack ...................................... 7 Files in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Management Pack ..................................................... 7 How to Import the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Management Pack ............................................ 8 Create a New Management Pack for Customizations .............................................................. 8 Understanding the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Management Pack ............................................... 9 Objects the Management Pack Discovers .............................................................................. 10 Viewing Information in the Operations Manager Console..................................................... 10 How to View Management Pack Details ................................................................................ 11 How to Display All Management Pack Rules .......................................................................... 11 How to Display Monitors for a Management Pack................................................................. 12 How to Display Monitor Thresholds ....................................................................................... 12 How to Display Overrides for a Management Pack ................................................................ 14 How to Display Performance Collection Rules ....................................................................... 15 Enabling Performance Threshold Rules .................................................................................. 17 Tuning Performance Threshold Rules..................................................................................... 17 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Definitions .............................................................................. 17 Discoveries .............................................................................................................................. 18 Rules ....................................................................................................................................... 22 Monitors ................................................................................................................................. 40 Diagnostics .............................................................................................................................. 44 Recoveries............................................................................................................................... 46 Reports.................................................................................................................................... 47

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Management Pack Guide

The Red Hat Enterprise Linux management pack helps you manage your Red Hat computers as part of your System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 infrastructure. The Red Hat Enterprise Linux management pack alerts you to problems with components such as agents and services so that you can continuously monitor the servers and clients on which your business depends.

Document Version
Revision History Date September 2009 December 2009 September 2010 Changes Original release of this guide. Update to support Cross Platform ACS Update to include Cumulative Update 3 of System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Update to include Cumulative Update 5 of System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2.

July 2011

In This Guide
What's New Introduction to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Management Pack Getting Started Understanding the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Management Pack Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Definitions

What's New
The following feature is new in the April 2011 release of the Red Hat management packs: Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6. The following features are new in the September 2010 release of the Red Hat management packs: A new overrideable property has been added for all log file rules. The new property enables generating individual alerts for each log file entry. The default behavior is that multiple matching log file entries create only a single alert. However, the new property, IndividualAlerts, can be set to true to enable the creation of a separate alert for each log file entry. Also, note that the Suppression option may need to be removed from the log file rule in order to fully achieve individual alerts for each log file entry. The Ping implementation has changed from using WMI to the ping.exe. This provides clearer output. Discovery intervals have changed to 14400 seconds. Also, the cross platform discoveries now use the discovery scheduler. Added object filters to linked reports to make it easier to populate the input parameters. The following issues are fixed in the February 2010 release of the Red Hat management packs: When the Operations Manager Management server fails over to another Management server, alerts in the failed servers log files may be re-generated and CPU load may increase significantly. The Operations Manager Management server fails to replace display string parameter while creating the alert for monitor state change. The following issues are fixed in the December 2009 release of the Red Hat management packs: Add the TimeZoneOffset property to the Unix.Computer object type and populate it from the SCX_OperatingSystem object in discovery objects. Enable the discovery timer and change the timer from 60 to 14400 seconds.

Introduction to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Management Pack

The Red Hat Enterprise Linux management pack provides both proactive and reactive monitoring of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4 (x64) and Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 (x64) operating systems. It monitors Red Hat Enterprise Linux components such as processes, resources, and server agents. 5

The monitoring provided by this management pack includes availability and configuration monitoring, performance data collection, and default thresholds. You can integrate the monitoring of Red Hat components into your service-oriented monitoring scenarios. In addition to health monitoring capabilities, this management pack includes reports, diagnostics, tasks, and views that enable near real-time diagnosis and resolution of detected issues.

Getting the Latest Management Pack and Documentation

You can find the Red Hat Enterprise Linux management pack in the System Center Operations Manager 2007 Catalog (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=82105).

Supported Configurations
In general, the supported configurations are outlined in Operations Manager 2007 R2 Supported Configurations (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=90676). We recommend that you monitor no more than 50 processes and 150 files per agent to avoid spikes in CPU usage that might affect the performance of monitored computers.

Supported Versions of Red Hat

The following table details the supported Red Hat operating systems by the management packs:

Management Pack File

Operating System Name Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4 Operating System Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 Operating System Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 Operating System

x86

X64

Microsoft.Linux.RHEL.4.mp

Yes

Yes

Microsoft.Linux.RHEL.5.mp

Yes

Yes

Microsoft.Linux.RHEL.6.mp

Yes

Yes

Getting Started
In this topic:
Before You Import the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Management Pack How to Import the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Management Pack Create a New Management Pack for Customizations

You can use the Red Hat Enterprise Linux management pack to monitor processes and files on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system. For more information about monitoring and deploying agents, see the Deploying UNIX or Linux Agents (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=146211) topic in Operations Manager 2007 R2 online library.

Before You Import the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Management Pack
Before you import the Red Hat Enterprise Linux management pack files, you must configure a cross-platform Run As Account. For more information about creating a Run As Account, see the Configuring a Cross Platform Run As Account (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=160348) topic in Operations Manager 2007 R2 online library.

Files in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Management Pack

The following table describes the files that are included in this management pack:

File name Red Hat Enterprise Linux Management Pack Guide for Operations Manager 2007 R2.doc

Display name Red Hat Enterprise Linux Management Pack Guide for Operations Manager 2007 R2 Linux Operating System Library Red Hat Operating System Library Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4 Operating System

Description

Microsoft.Linux.Library.mp

Linux Core Library

Microsoft.Linux.RedHat.Library.mp

Red Hat Core Library

Microsoft.Linux.RHEL.4.mp

Support for Red Hat

File name

Display name Library

Description Enterprise Linux Server 4 Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6

Microsoft.Linux.RHEL.5.mp

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 Operating System Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 Operating System

Microsoft.Linux.RHEL.6.mp

How to Import the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Management Pack

For instructions about importing a management pack, see How to Import a Management Pack in Operations Manager 2007 (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=142351). After you import the Red Hat Enterprise Linux management pack, create a new management pack in which you store overrides and other customizations.

Create a New Management Pack for Customizations

Most vendor management packs are sealed so that you cannot change any of the original settings in the management pack file. However, you can create customizations, such as overrides or new monitoring objects, and save them to a different management pack. By default, Operations Manager 2007 R2 saves all customizations to the Default Management Pack. As a best practice, you should instead create a separate management pack for each sealed management pack that you want to customize. Creating a new management pack for storing overrides has the following advantages: It simplifies the process of exporting customizations that were created in your test and preproduction environments to your production environment. For example, instead of exporting the default management pack that contains customizations from multiple management packs, you can export just the management pack that contains customizations of a single management pack. You can delete the original management pack without first having to delete the default management pack. A management pack that contains customizations is dependent on the original management pack. This dependency requires you to delete the management pack with customizations before you can delete the original management pack. If all of your customizations are saved to the default management pack, you must delete it before you can delete an original management pack. It is easier to track and update customizations to individual management packs. 8

For more information about sealed and unsealed management packs, see Management Pack Formats (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=108355). For more information about management pack customizations and the default management pack, see About Management Packs in Operations Manager 2007 (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=108356).

To Create a New Management Pack for Customizations 1. Open the Operations console, and then click the Administration button. 2. Right-click Management Packs, and then click Create New Management Pack. 3. Enter a name (for example, Red Hat Customizations), and then click Next. 4. Click Create.

Understanding the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Management Pack

This section contains the following topics:
Objects the Management Pack Discovers Viewing Information in the Operations Manager Console How to View Management Pack Details How to Display All Management Pack Rules How to Display Monitors for a Management Pack How to Display Monitor Thresholds How to Display Overrides for a Management Pack How to Display Performance Collection Rules Enabling Performance Threshold Rules Tuning Performance Threshold Rules

Objects the Management Pack Discovers

For information about discovering objects, see the Object Discoveries in Operations Manager 2007 topic in Operations Manager 2007 R2 online library (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=108505).

To use an override to change the setting for automatic discovery 1. In the Authoring pane, expand Management Pack Objects, and then click Object Discoveries. 2. On the Operations Manager toolbar, click Scope, and then filter the objects that appear in the details pane to include only Red Hat objects. 3. In the Operations Manager toolbar, click Change Scope to filter the list of objects. 4. On the Operations Manager toolbar, click Overrides, click Override the Object Discovery, and then click For all objects of class: Red Hat Linux Computer. 5. In the Override Properties dialog box, select the Override box for the Enabled parameter. 6. Under Management Pack, click New to create an unsealed version of the management pack, and then click OK, or select an unsealed management pack that you previously created in which to save this override. As a best practice, you should not save overrides to the default management pack. After you change the override setting, the object type will be automatically discovered and will appear in the Monitoring pane under Red Hat.

Viewing Information in the Operations Manager Console

You can see a high-level view of object types within an hour of deploying the Red Hat Enterprise Linux management pack. You can speed up this process by overriding the discovery of some objects. A view can contain a lengthy list of objects. To find a specific object or group of objects, you can use the Scope, Search, and Find buttons on the Operations Manager toolbar. For more information, see the How to Manage Monitoring Data Using Scope, Search, and Find (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=91983) topic. The following views are listed in the Red Hat node within the Unix/Linux Servers node found on the Monitoring pane of the Operations console. Logical Disk State Network Adapter State 10

 Operating System Performance Physical Disk State Red Hat Computers Diagram Red Hat Server State Health Performance

How to View Management Pack Details

For more information about a monitor and the associated override values, follow the steps below.

To view knowledge for a monitor 1. In the Operations console, click the Authoring button. 2. Expand Management Pack Objects, and then click Monitors. 3. In the Monitors pane, expand the targets until you reach the monitor level. Alternatively, you can use the Search box to find a particular monitor. 4. Click the monitor, and in the Monitors pane, click View knowledge. 5. Click the Product Knowledge tab.

How to Display All Management Pack Rules

Follow the procedure below to display a list of rules for the management packs that you imported. The list of rules can be viewed in Microsoft Office Excel.

To display management pack rules 1. In your management server, click Programs, and then click System Center. 2. Click Command Shell. 3. In the Command Shell window, type the following command:
get-rule | select-object @{Name="MP";Expression={ foreachobject {$_.GetManagementPack().DisplayName }}},DisplayName |

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sort-object -property MP | export-csv "c:\rules.csv"

4. A comma-separated value (.csv) file is created. The .csv file can be opened in Office Excel. Note In Excel, you might be required to specify that the .csv file is a text file.

How to Display Monitors for a Management Pack

To display a list of outputs for a management pack's monitors and overrides by using the Command Shell, follow the procedure below.

To display monitors for a management pack 1. In the Command Shell, type the following command:
get-monitor -managementPack name.mp | export-csv filename

2. A comma-separated value (.csv) file is created. The .csv file can be opened in Microsoft Office Excel. Note In Office Excel, you might be required to specify that the .csv file is a text file. For example, the following command retrieves data for the monitors that are associated with one of the core management packs:
get-monitor -managementPack System.Health.Library.mp | export-csv "C:\monitors.csv"

How to Display Monitor Thresholds

To display monitor thresholds, use the script described in this section. This script works for the majority of monitors. It creates a comma-separated values (.csv) file that includes the following columns and that can be viewed by using Microsoft Office Excel.

Column Type DisplayName

Description The type of objects the monitor is targeted to. The display name of the monitor. 12

Column Threshold AlertOnState

Description The threshold used by the monitor. Determines whether the monitor generates an alert when the state changes. Determines whether the generated alert will be automatically resolved when the monitor state changes back to green. The severity of the generated alert.

AutoResolveAlert

AlertSeverity

Run the following script to create the .csv file that displays the monitor thresholds:
function GetThreshold ([String] $configuration) { $config = [xml] ("<config>" + $configuration + "</config>") $threshold = $config.Config.Threshold if($threshold -eq $null) { $threshold = $config.Config.MemoryThreshold } if($threshold -eq $null) { $threshold = $config.Config.CPUPercentageThreshold } if($threshold -eq $null) { if($config.Config.Threshold1 -ne $null -and $config.Config.Threshold2 -ne $null) { $threshold = "first threshold is: " + $config.Config.Threshold1 + " second threshold is: " + $config.Config.Threshold2 }

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} if($threshold -eq $null) { if($config.Config.ThresholdWarnSec -ne $null -and $config.Config.ThresholdErrorSec -ne $null) { $threshold = "warning threshold is: " + $config.Config.ThresholdWarnSec + " error threshold is: " + $config.Config.ThresholdErrorSec } } if($threshold -eq $null) { if($config.Config.LearningAndBaseliningSettings -ne $null) { $threshold = "no threshold (baseline monitor)" } } return $threshold } $perfMonitors = get-monitor -Criteria:"IsUnitMonitor=1 and Category='PerformanceHealth'" $perfMonitors | select-object @{name="Target";expression={foreach-object {(GetMonitoringClass -Id:$_.Target.Id).DisplayName}}},DisplayName, @{name="Threshold";expression={foreach-object {GetThreshold $_.Configuration}}}, @{name="AlertOnState";expression={foreach-object {$_.AlertSettings.AlertOnState}}}, @{name="AutoResolveAlert";expression={foreach-object {$_.AlertSettings.AutoResolve}}}, @{name="AlertSeverity";expression={foreach-object {$_.AlertSettings.AlertSeverity}}} | sort Target, DisplayName | export-csv "c:\monitor_thresholds.csv"

How to Display Overrides for a Management Pack

To display overrides for a management pack, use the following procedure.

To display overrides for a management pack 1. In the Command Shell, type the following command:

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get-override -managementPack name.mp | export-csv filename 2. A .csv file is created. The .csv file can be opened in Microsoft Office Excel. Note In Excel, you might be required to specify that the .csv file is a text file. For example, this command displays the overrides for one of the core management packs:
get-override -managementPack Microsoft.SystemCenter.OperationsManager.Internal.mp | export-csv "c:\overrides.csv"

How to Display Performance Collection Rules

To display performance collection rules, use the script in this section. This script works for the majority of monitors. It creates a comma-separated values (.csv) file that includes the following columns and can be viewed by using Microsoft Office Excel.

Column WriteAction

Description Contains information about where the performance counter is written. Writes to the Operations Manager database. Writes to the data warehouse. Stores baseline data for a performance counter into the operational database.

WriteToDB or CollectionPerformanceData WriteToDW or CollectPerfDataWarehouse WC

To display the performance rules present in the management group, run the following script:
function GetPerfCounterName ([String] $configuration) { $config = [xml] ("<config>" + $configuration + "</config>") return ($config.Config.ObjectName + "\" + $config.Config.CounterName) } function GetFrequency ([String] $configuration) {

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$config = [xml] ("<config>" + $configuration + "</config>") $frequency = $config.Config.Frequency; if($frequency -eq $null) { $frequency = $config.Config.IntervalSeconds; } return ($frequency) } function GetDisplayName($performanceRule) { if($performanceRule.DisplayName -eq $null) { return ($performanceRule.Name); } else { return ($performanceRule.DisplayName); } } function GetWriteActionNames($performanceRule) { $writeActions = ""; foreach($writeAction in $performanceRule.WriteActionCollection) { $writeActions += " " + $writeAction.Name; } return ($writeActions); } $perf_collection_rules = get-rule -criteria:"Category='PerformanceCollection'"

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$perf_collection_rules | select-object @{name="Type";expression={foreach-object {(GetMonitoringClass id:$_.Target.Id).DisplayName}}},@{name="RuleDisplayName";expression={foreach-object {GetDisplayName $_}}} ,@{name="CounterName";expression={foreach-object {GetPerfCounterName $_.DataSourceCollection[0].Configuration}}},@{name="Frequency";expression={foreach-object {GetFrequency $_.DataSourceCollection[0].Configuration}}},@{name="WriteActions";expression={foreachobject {GetWriteActionNames $_}}} | sort Type,RuleDisplayName,CounterName | export-csv "c:\perf_collection_rules.csv"

Enabling Performance Threshold Rules

It is very difficult to deliver a performance threshold rule that is suitable for most environments; therefore, most performance threshold rules are initially disabled. Before you enable a performance threshold rule, you should baseline the relevant performance counters, and then apply the appropriate overrides to define and enable a suitable threshold for your environment.

Tuning Performance Threshold Rules

You should evaluate those rules that evaluate thresholds to determine whether the default thresholds are appropriate for your environment. If a default threshold is not appropriate for your environment, you should baseline the relevant performance counters, and then adjust the threshold by overriding them.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Definitions

The definitions of discoveries, rules, monitors, diagnostics, recoveries, and reports are provided in this section.

In This Topic
Discoveries Rules Monitors Diagnostics Recoveries Reports

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Discoveries
The following table lists the objects that can be discovered, and whether their discovery is supported by the management packs for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server versions 4, 5, and 6. Discoveries Discovered Object Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4 Computer Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4 Logical Disks Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4 Network Adapters Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4 Operating System Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4 Physical Disks Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4 Interval (if applicable) Enabled by Default Yes Version 4 Version 5 Version 6

Supported

Supported

Supported

Yes

Supported

Supported

Supported

Yes

Supported

Supported

Supported

Yes

Supported

Supported

Supported

No

Supported

Supported

Supported

No

Supported

Supported

Supported

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Discovered Object Processor Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4 x64 Supported Agent Information Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4 x86 Supported Agent Information Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 Computer Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 Logical Disks Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 Network Adapters Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 Operating

Interval (if applicable)

Enabled by Default

Version 4

Version 5

Version 6

14400

Yes

Supported

Supported

Supported

14400

Yes

Supported

Supported

Supported

Yes

Supported

Supported

Yes

Supported

Supported

Yes

Supported

Supported

Yes

Supported

Supported

19

Discovered Object System Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 Physical Disks Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 Processor Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 x64 Supported Agent Information Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 x86 Supported Agent Information Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 Computer Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 Logical Disks

Interval (if applicable)

Enabled by Default

Version 4

Version 5

Version 6

No

Supported

Supported

No

Supported

Supported

14400

Yes

Supported

Supported

14400

Yes

Supported

Supported

Yes

Supported

Yes

Supported

20

Discovered Object Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 Network Adapters Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 Operating System Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 Physical Disks Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 Processor Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 x64 Supported Agent Information Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 x86 Supported Agent Information

Interval (if applicable)

Enabled by Default Yes

Version 4

Version 5

Version 6

Supported

Yes

Supported

No

Supported

No

Supported

14400

Yes

Supported

14400

Yes

Supported

21

Discovered Object Populate RHEL 4 Computer Group Populate RHEL 5 Computer Group Populate RHEL 6 Computer Group

Interval (if applicable)

Enabled by Default Yes

Version 4

Version 5

Version 6

Supported

Supported

Supported

Yes

Supported

Supported

Yes

Supported

Rules
The following tables list rules and whether they are supported by the management packs for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server versions 4, 5, and 6. All rules are enabled by default except for log file rules. Log file Rules Rule Name Interval Version 4 Version 5 Supported Version 6 Supported

Root Password SSH (not applicable) Supported Authentication alert rule SSH Authentication (not applicable) Supported Failure alert rule SU Command Failure alert rule SU Command Success alert rule (not applicable) Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

(not applicable) Supported

Supported

Supported

22

Rule Name Auth Critical alert rule Root PAM SSH Authentication Alert Rule SU Command alert rule

Interval

Version 4

Version 5 (Deprecated)

Version 6 (Deprecated)

(not applicable) (Deprecated)

(not applicable) (Deprecated)

(Deprecated)

(Deprecated)

(not applicable) (Deprecated)

(Deprecated)

(Deprecated)

Logical disk rules Rule Disk Bytes/sec (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4) Disk Bytes/sec (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5) Disk Bytes/sec (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6) Interval 300 Version 4 Supported Version 5 Supported Version 6 Supported

300

Supported

Supported

300

Supported

Disk Read Bytes/sec 300 (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4) Disk Read Bytes/sec 300 (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5) Disk Read Bytes/sec 300 (Red Hat Enterprise

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

23

Rule Linux Server 6)

Interval

Version 4

Version 5

Version 6

Disk Reads/sec (Red 300 Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4) Disk Reads/sec (Red 300 Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5) Disk Reads/sec (Red 300 Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6) Disk Transfers/sec (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4) Disk Transfers/sec (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5) Disk Transfers/sec (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6) Disk Write Bytes/sec (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4) Disk Write Bytes/sec (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5) Disk Write Bytes/sec (Red Hat 300

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

300

Supported

Supported

300

Supported

300

Supported

Supported

Supported

300

Supported

Supported

300

Supported 24

Rule Enterprise Linux Server 6) Disk Writes/sec (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4) Disk Writes/sec (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5) Disk Writes/sec (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6) Free Megabytes (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4) Free Megabytes (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5) Free Megabytes (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6) % Free Space (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4) % Free Space (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5) % Free Space (Red Hat Enterprise

Interval

Version 4

Version 5

Version 6

300

Supported

Supported

Supported

300

Supported

Supported

300

Supported

300

Supported

Supported

Supported

300

Supported

Supported

300

Supported

300

Supported

Supported

Supported

300

Supported

Supported

300

Supported

25

Rule Linux Server 6) % Used Space (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4) % Used Space (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5) % Used Space (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6) Used Megabytes (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4) Used Megabytes (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5) Used Megabytes (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6)

Interval

Version 4

Version 5

Version 6

300

Supported

Supported

Supported

300

Supported

Supported

300

Supported

300

Supported

Supported

Supported

300

Supported

Supported

300

Supported

Network adapter rules Rule Interval Version 4 Supported Version 5 Supported Version 6 Supported

Byte Received/Sec 300 (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4) Byte Received/Sec 300 (Red Hat Enterprise

Supported

Supported

26

Rule Linux Server 5)

Interval

Version 4

Version 5

Version 6

Byte Received/Sec 300 (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6) Byte Sent/Sec (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4) Byte Sent/Sec (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5) Byte Sent/Sec (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6) 300 Supported Supported

Supported

Supported

300

Supported

Supported

300

Supported

Bytes Total/Sec 300 (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4) Bytes Total/Sec 300 (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5) Bytes Total/Sec 300 (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6)

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Operating system rules Rule Available MBytes (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Interval 300 Version 4 Supported Version 5 Supported Version 6 Supported

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Rule Server 4) Available MBytes (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5) Available MBytes (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6) Available MBytes (Swap) (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4) Available MBytes (Swap) (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5) Available MBytes (Swap) (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6) Page Reads/sec (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4) Page Reads/sec (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5)

Interval

Version 4

Version 5

Version 6

300

Supported

Supported

300

Supported

300

Supported

Supported

Supported

300

Supported

Supported

300

Supported

300

Supported

Supported

Supported

300

Supported

Supported

28

Rule Page Reads/sec (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6) Pages/sec (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4) Pages/sec (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5) Pages/sec (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6) Page Writes/sec (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4) Page Writes/sec (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5) Page Writes/sec (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6)

Interval 300

Version 4

Version 5

Version 6 Supported

300

Supported

Supported

Supported

300

Supported

Supported

300

Supported

300

Supported

Supported

Supported

300

Supported

Supported

300

Supported

% Available 300 Memory (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4)

Supported

Supported

Supported

29

Rule

Interval

Version 4

Version 5 Supported

Version 6 Supported

% Available 300 Memory (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5) % Available 300 Memory (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6) % Available Swap Space (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4) % Available Swap Space (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5) % Available Swap Space (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6) % Used Memory (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4) % Used Memory (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5) % Used Memory (Red Hat 300 Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

300

Supported

Supported

300

Supported

300

Supported

Supported

Supported

300

Supported

Supported

300

Supported

30

Rule Enterprise Linux Server 6) % Used Swap Space (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4) % Used Swap Space (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5) % Used Swap Space (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6) Total Processor % DPC Time (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4) Total Processor % DPC Time (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5) Total Processor % DPC Time (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6) Total Processor % Idle Time (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4)

Interval

Version 4

Version 5

Version 6

300

Supported

Supported

Supported

300

Supported

Supported

300

Supported

300

Supported

Supported

Supported

300

Supported

Supported

300

Supported

300

Supported

Supported

Supported

31

Rule Total Processor % Idle Time (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5) Total Processor % Idle Time (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6) Total Processor % Interrupt Time (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4) Total Processor % Interrupt Time (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5) Total Processor % Interrupt Time (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6)

Interval 300

Version 4

Version 5 Supported

Version 6 Supported

300

Supported

300

Supported

Supported

Supported

300

Supported

Supported

300

Supported

Total Processor % 300 IO Wait Time (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4) Total Processor % 300 IO Wait Time (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5)

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

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Rule

Interval

Version 4

Version 5

Version 6 Supported

Total Processor % 300 IO Wait Time (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6) Total Processor % Nice Time (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4) Total Processor % Nice Time (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5) Total Processor % Nice Time (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6) Total Processor % Privileged Time (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4) Total Processor % Privileged Time (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5) Total Processor % Privileged Time (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6) 300 Supported Supported

Supported

300

Supported

Supported

300

Supported

300

Supported

Supported

Supported

300

Supported

Supported

300

Supported

33

Rule Total Processor % Processor Time (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4) Total Processor % Processor Time (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5) Total Processor % Processor Time (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6) Total Processor % User Time (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4) Total Processor % User Time (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5) Total Processor % User Time (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6)

Interval 300

Version 4 Supported

Version 5 Supported

Version 6 Supported

300

Supported

Supported

300

Supported

300

Supported

Supported

Supported

300

Supported

Supported

300

Supported

Used MBytes (Red 300 Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4)

Supported

Supported

Supported

34

Rule

Interval

Version 4

Version 5 Supported

Version 6 Supported

Used MBytes (Red 300 Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5) Used MBytes (Red 300 Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6) Used Memory MBytes (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4) Used Memory MBytes (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5) Used Memory MBytes (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6) 300 Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

300

Supported

Supported

300

Supported

Physical disk rules Rule Avg. Disk sec/Read (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4) Avg. Disk sec/Read (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5) Interval 300 Version 4 Supported Version 5 Supported Version 6 Supported

300

Supported

Supported

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Rule Avg. Disk sec/Read (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6) Avg. Disk sec/Transfer (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4) Avg. Disk sec/Transfer (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5) Avg. Disk sec/Transfer (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6)

Interval 300

Version 4

Version 5

Version 6 Supported

300

Supported

Supported

Supported

300

Supported

Supported

300

Supported

Avg. Disk sec/Write 300 (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4) Avg. Disk sec/Write 300 (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5) Avg. Disk sec/Write 300 (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6) Disk Bytes/sec (Red Hat 300

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

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Rule Enterprise Linux Server 4) Disk Bytes/sec (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5) Disk Bytes/sec (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6)

Interval

Version 4

Version 5

Version 6

300

Supported

Supported

300

Supported

Processor rules Rule Processor % Idle Time (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4) Processor % Idle Time (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5) Processor % Idle Time (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6) Processor % Nice Time (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4) Interval 300 Version 4 Supported Version 5 Supported Version 6 Supported

300

Supported

Supported

300

Supported

300

Supported

Supported

Supported

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Rule Processor % Nice Time (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5) Processor % Nice Time (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6) Processor % Privileged Time (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4) Processor % Privileged Time (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5) Processor % Privileged Time (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6)

Interval 300

Version 4

Version 5 Supported

Version 6 Supported

300

Supported

300

Supported

Supported

Supported

300

Supported

Supported

300

Supported

Processor % Time 300 (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4) Processor % Time 300 (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5)

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

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Rule

Interval

Version 4

Version 5

Version 6 Supported

Processor % Time 300 (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6) Processor % User Time (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4) Processor % User Time (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5) Processor % User Time (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6) Processor % DPC Time (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4) Processor % DPC Time (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5) Processor % DPC Time (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6) Processor % Interrupt Time 300 Supported Supported

Supported

300

Supported

Supported

300

Supported

300

Supported

Supported

Supported

300

Supported

Supported

300

Supported

300

Supported

Supported

Supported

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Rule (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4) Processor % Interrupt Time (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5) Processor % Interrupt Time (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6) Processor % IO Time (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4) Processor % IO Time (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5) Processor % IO Time (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6)

Interval

Version 4

Version 5

Version 6

300

Supported

Supported

300

Supported

300

Supported

Supported

Supported

300

Supported

Supported

300

Supported

Monitors
The following tables list monitors and whether they are supported by the management packs for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server versions 4, 5, and 6. All monitors are enabled by default and set to auto resolve. 40

Availability health monitors Monitor Name Interval Threshold Version 4 Version 5 Version 6

Process Acpi 300 Service Health Process Audit 300 Service Health Process Cron 300 Service Health Process Klog 300 Service Health Process 300 Portmap Service Health Process 300 Rpcbind Service Health Process 300 Rpcidmap Service Health Process 300 Rpcstat Service Health Process SSH 300 Service Health Process Syslog 300 Service Health Process Udev 300

[n/a]

Supported

Supported

Supported

[n/a]

Supported

Supported

[n/a]

Supported

Supported

Supported

[n/a]

Supported

Supported

Supported

[n/a]

Supported

Supported

Supported

[n/a]

Supported

[n/a]

Supported

Supported

Supported

[n/a]

Supported

Supported

Supported

[n/a]

Supported

Supported

Supported

[n/a]

Supported

Supported

Supported

[n/a]

Supported

Supported

Supported 41

Monitor Name Service Health

Interval

Threshold

Version 4

Version 5

Version 6

Note Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 does not implement klog and portmap functionality, but does support them for earlier versions. Portmap has been replaced by rpcbind in Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6. Performance health monitors Monitor Logical Disk % Free Space Logical Disk Health Network Adapter Health Operating System Available MegaBytes Memory Operating System Available MegaBytes Swap Space Operating System Total Percent DPC Interval 300 Threshold 5 Version 4 Supported Version 5 Supported Version 6 Supported

300

[n/a]

Supported

Supported

Supported

300

[n/a]

Supported

Supported

Supported

300

2.5

Supported

Supported

Supported

300

2.5

Supported

Supported

Supported

300

95

Supported

Supported

Supported

42

Monitor Time Operating System Total Percent Interrupt Time Operating System Total Percent Processor Time Physical Disk Avg. Disk sec/Read Physical Disk Avg. Disk sec/Transfer Physical Disk Avg. Disk sec/Write Physical Disk Health Processor Percent Processor Time Processor Total Percent DPC Time Processor Total Percent

Interval

Threshold

Version 4

Version 5

Version 6

300

10

Supported

Supported

Supported

300

95

Supported

Supported

Supported

300

50

Supported

Supported

Supported

300

50

Supported

Supported

Supported

300

50

Supported

Supported

Supported

300

[n/a]

Supported

Supported

Supported

300

95

Supported

Supported

Supported

300

15

Supported

Supported

Supported

300

10

Supported

Supported

Supported

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Monitor Interrupt Time

Interval

Threshold

Version 4

Version 5

Version 6

Diagnostics
The following table lists management pack diagnostics and whether they are supported by the management packs for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server versions 4, 5, and 6. All diagnostics are enabled by default and have a timeout value of 300 seconds.

Diagnostic Name ACPI status diagnostic Auditd status diagnostic Available MBytes Swap Top Processes Diagnostic

Comment

Version 4 Supported

Version 5 Supported

Version 6 Supported

Supported

Supported

In response to High Memory Utilization, Return top Consumers In response to High Memory Utilization, Return top Consumers

Supported

Supported

Supported

Available MBytes Top Processes Diagnostic

Supported

Supported

Supported

Cron status diagnostic Klog status diagnostic) Logical Disk Health Diagnostic

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

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Diagnostic Name Percent Processor Time Top Processes Diagnostic

Comment In response to High CPU Utilization, Return top Consumers

Version 4 Supported

Version 5 Supported

Version 6 Supported

Physical Disk Health Diagnostic Portmap status diagnostic Rpcbind status diagnostic Rpcidmap status diagnostic RpcStat status diagnostic SSH status diagnostic Syslog status diagnostic Total Percent Processor Time Top Processes Diagnostic In response to High CPU Utilization, Return top Consumers

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Udev status diagnostic

Supported

Supported

Supported

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 does not implement klog and portmap functionality, but does support them for earlier versions. Portmap has been replaced by rpcbind in Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6.

Recoveries
The following table lists recoveries and whether they are supported by the management packs for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server versions 4, 5, and 6. All recoveries are enabled by default, have a timeout value of 300 seconds, and require a privileged account on the UNIX or Linux server.

Recovery Name ACPI restart Audit restart Cron status restart Disk Health Mount Klog restart Portmap restart Rpcbind restart Rpcidmap restart RPCStat restart SSH restart Syslog status restart Udev restart

Version 4 Supported

Version 5 Supported Supported

Version 6 Supported Supported Supported Supported Supported Supported Supported

Supported Supported Supported Supported

Supported Supported Supported Supported

Supported Supported Supported Supported

Supported Supported Supported Supported Supported

Supported Supported Supported Supported Supported

Note

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 does not implement klog and portmap functionality, but does support them for earlier versions. Portmap has been replaced by rpcbind in Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6.

Reports
The following reports are included in the management packs for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server versions 4, 5, and 6. Allow up to 30 minutes for reports from a newly installed management pack to appear in the Reporting console.

Report Name Disk Performance Analysis

Report Contents Disk write bytes per second Disk transfers per second Disk reads per second

Memory Performance History (Available MB) Memory Performance History (Page Reads per Sec)

Available megabytes Page reads per second

Memory Performance History (Page Writes per Page writes per Sec Sec) Memory Performance History (Pages per Sec) Operating System Configuration Pages per second Operating system version Display name Operating System Performance Page writes per second Free megabytes Disk read bytes per second Disk write bytes per second Operating System Storage Configuration File system 47

Report Name

Report Contents Size in bytes Total percent processor time Available megabytes Page reads per second

Performance History

Total percent processor time Device name

Performance History (Percent Processor Time)

Percent processor time

Total Percent IO Wait Time (Percentage Usage) Total processor percent IO wait time

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