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Blog Post:
(Alternate) Chicken and Egg Problem == solved: How to extract BeanSpy or PowerShell scripts if there is no discovery?
Christopher Crammond
I recently found another solution to the chicken v. egg problem that I mentioned in the previous blog post . This script from TechNet should be run on the Management Server and will copy BeanSpy and the JEE PowerShell scripts to a well-defined location. See which works for you.
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3 May 2013
Blog Post:
Chicken and Egg Problem == solved: How to extract BeanSpy or PowerShell scripts if there is no discovery?
Christopher Crammond
One issue that you might experience with BeanSpy (or the universal discovery PowerShell script) is how to get a hold of these binaries. The expect flow is that the Management Packs (MPs) and Management Pack Bundles (MPBs) get imported, some discoveries occur, and then from the application server instance...
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25 Apr 2013
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Howto: Monitor EJBs with BeanSpy in SCOM 2012 on WebSphere 6.1 (version 2)
Christopher Crammond
It would appear that yesterday's post may not work for everyone, and here is a second version that will bypass this problem. The problem relates to the fact that I elected to have the newly created EJB class extend the base Microsoft.JEE.Application class from the Microsoft.JEE.Library management...
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31 Jan 2013
Blog Post:
Howto: Monitor EJBs with BeanSpy in SCOM 2012 on WebSphere 6.1
Christopher Crammond
By simply taking yesterday's post and applying the match of judicious copy-n-paste methodology: may I present a MP for managing EJBs for WebSphere 6.1. All of the caveats regarding support (or rather lack thereof) and this is for information use apply. :) Finally, the MP presented uses the debug...
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30 Jan 2013
Blog Post:
Howto: Monitor EJBs with BeanSpy in SCOM 2012 on WebSphere 7.0
Christopher Crammond
Similar to my previous posting , here is a sample management pack for monitoring EJBs on WebSphere 7.0. For an explanation of what is happening, refer to the previous posting (and all of the legal warnings denying responsibility therein). :) Basically, the differences are: Changed references...
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28 Jan 2013
Blog Post:
Howto: Monitor EJBs with BeanSpy in SCOM 2012 on JBoss 5
Christopher Crammond
Out-of-the-box, EJB discovery and monitoring are not supported by the SCOM 2012 JEE MPs ( http://blogs.technet.com/b/random_happy_dev_thoughts/archive/2012/04/18/system-center-operations-manager-scom-2012-released.aspx ). That said, there is nothing to preclude a customer to write their own management...
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25 Jan 2013
Blog Post:
BeanSpy: WebLogic Application Server JMXQuery to list deployed applications
Christopher Crammond
If you are running WebLogic, here are a few quick steps to validating the BeanSpy installation. Once you have deployed BeanSpy to a web application server, the next step is to see that it works. While look at the /Stats or /Stats/Info is a nice cross-platform solution, sometimes you want to know what...
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22 Jan 2013
Blog Post:
BeanSpy: JBoss Application Server JMXQuery to list deployed applications
Christopher Crammond
IF you are running JBoss, here are a few quick steps to validating the BeanSpy installation. Once you havedeployed BeanSpy to a web application server, the next step is to see that it works. While look at the /Stats or /Stats/Info is a nice cross-platform solution, sometimes you want to know what...
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22 Jan 2013
Blog Post:
Recommended: Demystifying JEE App Performance Monitoring in OpsMgr 2012 (JEE FAQs)
Christopher Crammond
Here is an excellent primer for more information about " Demystifying JEE App Performance Monitoring in OpsMgr 2012" . This article provides an overview of the JEE technology and how that maps to Windows terminology. It is a great read for some looking to learn more about managing JEE technologies in...
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27 Aug 2012
Blog Post:
Managing Tomcat 5.5 by extending the JEE Application Server MPs
Christopher Crammond
Similar to the posts for Tomcat 6 ( here ) and Tomcat 7 ( part 1 / part 2 ). This post (and Management Pack) are very similar to the previous posting with some slight platform variations. Different MBean Name The names of the MBeans class (and packages) representing Web Modules are different from...
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14 Jun 2012
Blog Post:
UNIX/Linux Discovery and Workaround: Application Server's path is a symbolic link or from a network mount
Christopher Crammond
There is a bug in the Unix/Linux JEE application server code that for some configuration could prevent deep monitoring. The issue will occur if the Application Server path contains a symbolic link or is network mounted. In these cases, the underlying discover code does not see the path on disk, which...
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7 Jun 2012
Blog Post:
SCOMfaq.ch: SCOM 2012 – JEE Application Availability Monitor Template
Christopher Crammond
Over on SCOMfaq.ch there is a great posting on SCOM 2012 – JEE Application Availability Monitor Template . As I wrote the template wizard, it's pretty cool to see a post about something (professional) I did on the world-wide-web. I was going to do a similar post, but this is such a great job I...
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30 May 2012
Blog Post:
JConsole: a tool for viewing MBeans
Christopher Crammond
JConsole is tool provided by Oracle/Sun as of Java 5 to monitor a JVM through JMX. The purpose of BeanSpy is to provide a means of exposing this information through SCOM 2012 . For those looking for more MBean information, here is a great blog post explaining how to connect JConsole to Tomcat. The information...
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30 May 2012
Blog Post:
Tomcat 5.5: Additional Steps to Connect to the MBean Server
Christopher Crammond
As part of SCOM 2012, there is a feature to discover and monitor Java Application Servers ( support matrix listed here ). This release supports Tomcat 5.5.x, 6.x, and 7.x, For Tomcat 5.5.x, the default application server settings do not allow the application server to have access to the JMX Store. ...
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30 May 2012
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Inframon: Excellent Blog Post about Monitoring WebSphere in System Center Operations Manager 2012
Christopher Crammond
I am a late in finding it, but here is a great blog post by Inframon detailing how to monitor WebSphere using the JEE Application Server management packs . This is a great article with detailed steps and pictures. Kudos to the for the informative post! Post: WebSphere monitoring with the JEE Application...
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24 May 2012
Blog Post:
Minor Typos in the JEE Application Server PowerShell scripts
Christopher Crammond
The help messages provided in the PowerShell scripts for adding and removing Universal Instances of JEE Application Servers to SCOM 2012 contain minor typos. The help messages (a) have the wrong script names and (b) should contain relative path to the directories. For the later, by this I mean that...
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23 May 2012
Blog Post:
Manually Discovering JEE Application Servers with SCOM 2012
Christopher Crammond
Out-of-the-box, System Center Operations Manager can discover several different application server platforms and versions ( support matrix is here ); however, this is not every version of every application server. Also, for an application server to be discovered and monitored in Operations Manager, the...
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21 May 2012
Blog Post:
System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) 2012 released!
Christopher Crammond
Microsoft releases System Center 2012 to the public at large. For those who have not already tried it, a private trial is available for download here . Part of the System Center 2012 suite is System Center Operations Manager 2012 (SCOM 2012). This release of SCOM 2012 has many great features, but...
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18 Apr 2012
Blog Post:
Sample JEE Application: Contoso Order Service
Christopher Crammond
To get a better understanding of how to use the SCOM 2012 Add-on of the JEE Application Server feature in future blog posts, it is going to be necessary to have an application to talk about (and write Management Packs (MPs) against). For that reason, I am going to introduce a simple application dubbed...
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26 Mar 2012
Blog Post:
Recursively removing Management Packs
Christopher Crammond
As a developer working with SCOM and management packs, I have had several occasions where I have needed to remove a lot of management packs (MPs). Unfortunately, you must remove the MPs one-at-a-time in the UI. Granted, in a production environment you are probably not removing a lot of MPs; however,...
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19 Mar 2012
Blog Post:
Managing Tomcat 6 by extending the JEE Application Server MPs
Christopher Crammond
Previously, I wrote two posting regarding how to extend the JEE MPs to start, stop, and restarting Tomcat 7.x applications (Tomcat 7 Posting: Part 1 Part 2 ). This post will do the same for Tomcat 6. Rather than re-state what was previously posted, here I will just highlight the differences for 6.x support...
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12 Mar 2012
Blog Post:
Managing Tomcat 7 by extending the JEE Application Server MPs (Part 2 of 2)
Christopher Crammond
In the previous posting , I detailed that Tomcat provides an interface for starting and stopping applications. I gave synopis of the configuration changes necessary to do this as well. In this post I will detail how to write a Management Pack to run these tasks from the SCOM Console. Goal Create...
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10 Feb 2012
Blog Post:
Managing Tomcat 7 by extending the JEE Application Server MPs (Part 1 of 2)
Christopher Crammond
A new featured in SCOM 2012 is the monitoring of Java Application Servers . While there are several applications servers that are supported, this posting will focus on Tomcat 7.x support (with some slightly changes, this will work with previous versions, but I'll save that for a different post). I...
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10 Feb 2012
Blog Post:
Microsoft Open Sources BeanSpy
Christopher Crammond
This post is a bit belated, but I am proud to announce that my team has open sourced the Java component for monitoring MBeans on remote applications servers. The project is called BeanSpy and it is available on github . Platforms Microsoft released BeanSpy under the Apache 2.0 license on January...
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6 Feb 2012
Blog Post:
Health service should not generate data about this managed object ( Microsoft.JEE.ApplicationServer.Instance ) [aka SCOM Discovery of JEE Application Server (Tomcat/JBoss/WebLogic/WebSphere) fails]
Christopher Crammond
A new feature of SCOM 2012 is the support for discovery and monitoring of JEE Application Servers (Tomcat/JBoss/WebLogic/WebSphere). For the discovery process to work properly, the Agent Proxy must be enabled for each Agent computer. Failure to do will result critical alerts within the SCOM Console...
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11 Oct 2011
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