How to monitor a set of process (cron, ssh, ntp, etc) in a large number of linux VMs in vRops.

[Nareshcbit]

Hi All,

Requirement: We want to automate monitoring the OS process. As soon as a VM is provisioned (by VRA), vRops should start monitoring the process and alert if a process is not running.

We have around 10000 VMs and we can leverage vRO to execute REST API / Powercli if required.

In vRops UI we can monitor the linux process. The below link shows how to monitor.

https://thecloudxpert.net/2016/04/howto-monitor-a-process-in-linux-using-vrealize-operations-end-poi...

But we want to automate these steps.

Thanks,

Naresh

[daphnissov]

You may want to use this software blueprint I built that automates the EpOps installation and configuration process in Linux VMs. You'll need a vRA Enterprise license to use software components, however. From there, it's a matter of automating the process addition into vROps for that endpoint, and I don't know if the APIs yet support that ability. If they do, that could be another software component assuming you have the license.

[Nareshcbit]

Hi ,

Thanks for pointing me to the software blueprint. I would explore this. 

However , Installing & configuring Epops agent is not the problem

I am specifically looking for a way to automate adding processes to monitor

Thanks,

Naresh

[daphnissov]

Yeah, I understand what you're asking to do, I just don't know that the vROps API covers that ability right now. I'll dig around and see how close you might be able to get, however.

[Nareshcbit · Accepted solution]

Yes, vRops API has the ability to automate this process. I configured it in my environment and blogged here vRops: How to Monitor Linux Process Automatically – via Rest API - nxgcloud

Need to test further more and see if there is a better way to do it.

Thanks,

Naresh

[daphnissov]

This is really good to know, and thanks for writing it up! I should like to test this in my lab.