This guide provides reference information about the subagents and MIB modules included with Netcool/SSM and Netcool/Application Service Monitors (Netcool/ASM).
Introduction Netcool/SSM provides
real-time monitoring for systems, applications, and networks. It is a key
technology in maintaining overall performance and availability of business
and application services. Netcool/SSM is
based on the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) and implements the
MIB-II, RMON and RMON2 network monitoring standards.
Agent
The agent MIB module provides administrative functions for the Netcool/SSM agent.
Application flow
The appflow subagent measures
information on application connections, called flows. The metrics gathered
include connection start-time, setup-time, duration, teardown time, inter-packet
arrival times, and retransmissions— information useful for application policy
management, quality of service (by applications such as voice and video) monitoring
and capacity planning.
Application usage
The appusage subagent and the associated appusage MIB
provide facilities for monitoring applications that are currently running,
or loaded, on the Windows desktop.
Arithmetic
The arithmetic subagent and its MIB module provide
facilities for flexible monitoring and alarm generation using a combination
of free-form arithmetic expressions, logical comparisons, and built-in mathematical
functions.
Availability
The availability subagent and the associated availability MIB
provide a mechanism for determining whether an application endpoint or network
host is available.
Crontab
The crontab subagent and the associated crontab MIB
module enable events to be fired or commands to be executed at specific, scheduled
times.
Desktop
The desktop subagent and the associated desktop MIB
module provide a simple application, Desk Tool, that enables users of Windows
machines to submit help desk queries.
File monitoring
The filemon subagent and its MIB module provide
facilities for monitoring files and directories in a file system.
File transfer
The filetransfer subagent and the associated filetransfer MIB
module facilitate reliable and secure file transfer from a remote server to
a network node.
Generic alarm
The genalarm subagent and the associated genAlarm MIB
module provide a generic facility for threshold monitoring and alarm generation.
Host resources Netcool/SSM can
monitor all of the variables that are part of the Host Resource MIB (RFC1514).
These include CPU, memory and disk usage and as well as installed software
and its usage on the host system.
IP configuration
The ipconfig subagent and the associated ipconfig MIB
module collect IP configuration information for individual network interfaces
or entire networks.
LogMonX
The logmonx subagent and the associated logMonX MIB
module monitor log files for specific expressions and generate an event and
notification upon finding those expressions.
NT performance monitor
The ntperfmon subagent
views data from performance tables on Windows hosts, which enables
it to monitor tasks and processes. These elements include ACS/RSVP
Service, browser, cache, distribution transaction, authentication,
network, printer, disk, process, RAS, and system metrics.
NT services
The ntscm subagent and the associated ntServices MIB
module provide functions for monitoring and controlling Windows services,
similar to those provided by the administrative tools delivered on Windows
platforms.
Process
The process subagent provides
facilities to monitor, start, stop and restart applications and processes
running on a server or other network device. It can monitor multiple attributes
of a running process, including status, memory usage, size and resident set
size, (RSS), process time, threads, and disk and network I/O.
Process handle
The process handle subagent, prochandle, and its
MIB module collect data about handles associated with processes running on
the host machine.
Programmable
The programmable subagent
can invoke any program script to be executed manually or in response to specific
events. Using this feature you can add customized functionality to the agent,
allowing it to take action on specific events.
Scratchpad
The scratch subagent and its MIB module provide
facilities for storing user defined data.
Service level agreement
The sla subagent provides metrics
for application performance (response time and availability). The MIB allows
threshold values to be set (dynamically) for application performance metrics
and can generate an SNMP trap. The SLA MIB measures various metrics about
client, server and network response time and can be configured to monitor
individual applications, clients or servers.
Solaris kstat facility
The kstat subagent and MIB module provide facilities
for gathering kernel statistics from host machines running the Solaris operating
system.
Recently installed software
The srsoftware subagent and the associated srSoftware MIB
module provide summary information about software packages installed on Windows
hosts.
Storage
The srstorage subagent and the associated srStorage MIB
module provide additional statistical information to augment the data contained
in the hrStorageTable of the hostres MIB.
Service discovery
The svcdisc subagent provides
information on the relationship between clients, servers and the applications
they are using. This supports application topology discovery as it can be
used to discover the relationship between clients and servers for each different
application.
Server security
The svrsecurity subagent
provides host-based intrusion detection by looking for any indication of a
security breach. It can detect and recognize excessive login attempts, denial-of-service
attacks and port-scanning attempts.
System resources
The sysres subagent extends
the functionality of host resource management to include additional data about
CPU, memory and disks. It allows you to monitor system and application log
files and gather data on system and application events.
Timer
The timer subagent MIB module provide a mechanism
for generating events at a scheduled point in time.
Traceroute
The traceroute subagent
performs periodic traceroutes that show the path that an application takes
from the client to the server. Data is stored for future baselining and for
historical reporting of routes and hop delay information.
Transaction
The transaction subagent and the associated transaction MIB
provide facilities for monitoring application transactions.
Netcool/ASM for Microsoft Exchange
The Netcool/ASM for
Microsoft Exchange monitors both the configuration and performance aspects
of Exchange servers, providing metrics such as memory and CPU usage, page
faults, SMTP queue length, POP3 queue length, and cache hit ratios. It can
automatically generate alarms based on the value of particular performance
metrics.
Netcool/ASM for Microsoft IIS Netcool/ASM for
Microsoft IIS provides comprehensive support for monitoring performance and
availability of Microsoft Internet Information Server/Services (IIS) servers.
It addresses aspects such as Web, FTP, SMTP and NNTP performance, and contains
metrics such as failed Web and FTP logins, pages not found, traffic monitors
and FTP traffic.
Netcool/ASM for Oracle
The Netcool/ASM for
Oracle monitors various aspects of Oracle database performance such as database,
table space, buffer pool, processes, sessions, and I/O.
Netcool/ASM for Microsoft SQL Server
The Netcool/ASM for
Microsoft SQL monitors performance metrics for the server, database configuration,
internal processes, and locks as well as SQL statistics and available buffer,
cache, and memory.
Netcool/ASM for Apache
The Netcool/ASM for Apache provides monitoring for aspects of the overall Apache server performance, including details about specific Web sites hosted by the server.
Netcool/ASM for WebSphere
The Netcool/ASM for IBM WebSphere contains a wide range of performance metrics for IBM WebSphere servers, derived from the WebSphere Performance Monitoring Infrastructure (PMI). It provides a flexible monitoring scheme, enabling you to monitor particular counters in a collection.
Netcool/ASM for WebLogic
The Netcool/ASM for WebLogic provides
performance metrics for BEA WebLogic servers. The performance metrics
are available as raw bean attribute data, however you can derive composite
metrics from this data using a range of built-in functions.
Netcool/ASM for Active Directory
The Netcool/ASM for Microsoft Active Directory provides facilities for monitoring the status and performance of Active Directory domain controllers, the connectivity of Active Directory entities and the contents of the Active Directory itself.
Netcool/ASM for IBM Lotus Notes/Domino Server
The Netcool/ASM for IBM Lotus Notes/Domino Server delivers performance data about IBM Lotus Domino servers by polling metrics provided by the Lotus Domino API. It can monitor multiple Domino server instances running on one machine.
Netcool/ASM for Sybase ASE
Netcool Application Service Monitor for Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise (Netcool/ASM for Sybase) provides performance monitoring facilities for a range of Sybase ASE database servers.
Netcool/ASM for MSCS Netcool/ASM for
Microsoft Cluster Service Control (MSCS) monitors and controls MSCS server
clusters. It monitors and controls the status of nodes, groups, resources,
networks and network interfaces, and generate events in response to changes
in status.
MIB-2 group
The objects in the MIB-2 group are defined in the
MIB-2 standard (RFC 1213).
RMON1 MIB group
RMON probes listen to traffic on the network and record statistics
or capture traffic according to their configuration. The statistics and saved
traffic retrieved by the network management station, using the SNMP protocol,
are stored in a MIB.
RMON2 MIB group
The RMON2 MIB extends the original RMON MIB to include groups to
enable the RMON MIB to monitor protocol traffic above the MAC-level.
Regular expressions Netcool/SSM enables
you to use regular expressions in many subagent configuration commands.