Instead of manually installing the Hyperic Agent, I am wondering if it is an acceptable practice to install the Hyperic Agent on the Windows template? Any issues with the Hyperic Agent and sysprepped VMs?
Thanks,
-MattG
I've tried it and it doesn't seem to work.
It would be nice if there was integration between Hyperic and the vSphere Client so that the Hyperic Agent could be installed by right clicking on VM in vSphere Client.
-MattG
Regarding installing in a template, you could as long as the agent has not yet run for the first time or if it has run, make sure to shut down the agent and delete its "data" directory before finalizing your image. You can also prepopulate the agent.properties file so that when it does start the first time, it will not need user interaction.
Regarding deploying using vSphere, there is a way to do that using the vSphere Web Client. You would need to install vSphere Infrastructure Navigator. vIN 5.7 and above allows one to deploy Hyperic Agents to VMs running 32 and 64 bit versions of Linux and Windows. Make sure the OS to which you're deploying is supported. vIN 5.8 and above supports multiple Hyperic Profiles that can be used to register agents to different Hyperic servers if you have more than one in your environment.
I started up the template VM, shutdown the Hyperic agent, and deleted the data directory. I didn't modify the agent.properties file as it has the correct Hyper server info in it. I searched to make sure that the template VM name wasn't in it (to ensure that there is no VM specific info in it). I converted the template to a VM and deployed a VM from the template. The Hyperic agent is set to start automatically but doesn't. I can start it without issue. However when I start it, Hyperic does not auto discover the new VM?
Also, I looked through the vSphere Web Client and do not see any references to installing the Hyperic Agent on a VM? Its not in the VM associated actions or VIN (which is working and sending data to vROPs).
Thanks,
-MattG
Hi,
Re-Install an agent, don't start it, and take a template.
How do you install the agent without starting it? I am assuming from CLI?
-MattG
On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 3:01 PM, Boris_Erblat <
yes:
\bin\hq-agent.bat install
and then:
\bin\hq-agent.bat start
Hi,
Can you explain what kind of scenario do you want to do ?
Deploying vCloud Ent Suite. Want all vRA deployed blueprints to be
automatically monitored by Hyperic. Would ultimately like to associate
vSphere tags when blueprint is deployed and have vROPs automatically group
VMs based on vSphere tags.
So it would useful to have Hyperic agent fully configured on VM template
used by blueprint, so that when the VM is deployed and the service started
for the first time, it is being monitored. On that note, can Hyperic
server be configured to auto accept newly discovered agents?
Thanks,
-MattG
On Jan 4, 2015, at 3:58 AM, Boris_Erblat <communities-emailer@vmware.com>
Hi Matt,
Try the following thread:
Auto approve a resource using auto-approve.properties configuration file
Good luck,
Tal
I am confused. I only see the bin directory on my VM after I install the
agent. How can I configure the agent if it is already installed?
-MattG
On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 7:26 AM, yaronbor <communities-emailer@vmware.com>
Hi Matt,
Sorry about the confusion.
Don't install the agent using the exe, just extract the zip file into a directory and they run the batch to create the service. You should then create an agent properties file with the relevant information so when the VM is created the agent will have all the information it needs.
Eran
I tried this and copied an existing agent.properties file to the VM. Hyperic agent complains about encryption errors. I am assuming that Hyperic server login info in the agent.properties files is encrypted and causing this issue? If so, how do I resolve this?
Thanks,
-MattG
It could be the password used for registering the agent is encrypted in agent.properties. This occurs when a clear text password is in the agent.properties file. The agent upon detecting a clear text password will encrypt it.
Look for this value in the agent.properties file.
agent.setup.camPword=
You can either assign a text password to this value or start one of the agents once successfully connecting to your HQ Server, it will then encrypt the password which you can then set in the ../conf/agent.properties file.
It might look something like this:
agent.setup.camPword=ENC(YzI18ayle1BeRMUllXSCDQ==)
Hi All,
I ran in to this same problem with needing to have the agent installed upon deployment of the windows template. I was able to accomplish using the below method.
1. Copy the hperic-hqee-agent-xxx folder to a directory on the c drive
2. Go to the hyperic-hqee-agent-xxx\conf\agent.properties and open with notepad
3. Uncomment and fill in the following properties
agent.setup.camIP=EnterHypericHostIPAddress
agent.setup.camSSLPort=7443
agent.setup.camSecure=yes
agent.setup.camLogin=camUsername
agent.setup.camPword=YourcamPW ---This will be in plain text but once the vm deploys and registers in hyperic correctly, the PW will encrypt
agent.setup.agentIP=*default* ---Leave this as default so it picks up the vm ip once the server is deployed
agent.setup.agentPort=*default*
agent.setup.resetupTokens=no
agent.setup.acceptUnverifiedCertificate=yes
agent.setup.unidirectional=no
4. Create a .bat file on the template with the below
set vara=install
set varb=start
call C:\Hyperic_Agent\hyperic-hqee-agent-5.8.4\bin\hq-agent.bat %vara%
call C:\Hyperic_Agent\hyperic-hqee-agent-5.8.4\bin\hq-agent.bat %varb%
5. Convert VM to template
6. After vm is deployed from template and has run through customizations, run the .bat file wither through scripting or customization method
7. If the installed and started correctly, there will be a agent.su file under hyperic-hqee-agent-xxx\conf and the campw in hyperic- hqee-agent-xxx\conf\agent.properties will be encrypted
We did it similar. But we added the thumbprint section in the agent.properties as well.
agent.setup.serverCertificateThumbprint= THUMBPRINT from your vRealize Server
You will find the thumbprint under your admin login on the right hand side on top where the certificate information in stored.
Left of "Admin".
Frank