Linux PSI Monitoring

LogicMonitor’s Linux PSI monitoring package leverages SSH to monitor the CPU, Memory and IO load of your Linux resource. Compatibility As of March 2022, LogicMonitor’s Linux PSI package is known to be compatible with: Setup Requirements Add Resources into Monitoring Add your Linux hosts into monitoring. For more information on adding resources into monitoring, see Adding … Continued

Linux (SSH) Monitoring

LogicMonitor offers monitoring for Linux systems that leverages the SSH protocol to collect various metrics including CPU, memory, and filesystem utilization; uptime; and throughput to name a few. However, this monitoring is designed only for the systems where SNMP is not configured. If SNMP is configured, more robust out-of-the-box monitoring will activate and there is no need … Continued

VMware Horizon Monitoring

Overview ​VMware Horizon is a suite of products and technologies designed to help information technology (IT) administrators deliver desktops and applications and secure data on a variety of endpoint devices.​ Using LogicMonitor’s VMware Horizon package, you can monitor persistent disks, datastore state, desktop pools, vSphere host state, and more. Setup Requirements Import LogicModules From the … Continued

Citrix XenApp/XenDesktop Monitoring

Overview Citrix XenApp/XenDesktop monitoring covers three components: DataSource Coverage Description Citrix_XenApp_Machines Farm Monitor machines (VDAs) belonging to the Farm Citrix_XenApp_LogonPerformance Farm Monitor logon performance; logon performance is aggregated per delivery group Citrix_XenApp_Troubleshooter DDC Find issues that might impede monitoring Citrix_XenApp_ConnectionFailureTrends Farm Breakdown of connection failure trends by the reason for failure Citrix_XenApp_MachineFailureTrends Farm Breakdown of … Continued

Nutanix HyperConverged Infrastructure

Overview Nutanix systems are monitored via SNMPv3. LogicMonitor will auto-discover Nutanix devices provided SNMP is enabled. For more information on enabling SNMP for Nutanix devices, see the Configuring SNMP documentation provided by Nutanix. Known Issue: False VM Memory Usage Reporting LogicMonitor is aware of an issue where the datapoint vmMemoryUsagePercent for the Nutanix_VirtualMachines DataSource always … Continued

NTP Configuration

Configuring NTP is a best practice for network administrators to avoid problems due to inconsistent timekeeping across devices. NTP ensures that your devices’ clocks are all synchronized, within milliseconds, across your network so that there are no time incongruities in events. Some devices, like those that support NetFlow and sFlow, will require accurate time synchronization … Continued

SNMPv3 Configuration

Enabling the SNMP Background Services Enabling the SNMP background services is an essential step for configuring your device for monitoring. The following sections provide examples of how to set up SNMPv3 on RedHat/CentOS and Debian/Ubuntu. Depending on your distribution, additional adjustments may be necessary. Note: To ensure you have sufficient permissions, you should become root … Continued

AIX

Depending on your version and configuration of AIX, the file that controls SNMP differs.  Check whether /usr/sbin/snmpd is linked to /usr/sbin/snmpdv3ne: cd /usr/sbin ls -al snmpd lrwxrwxrwx 1 root system 9 Oct 31 2006 snmpd -> snmpdv3ne If it is linked to snmpdv3ne or snmpdv3e, then the relevant config file is /etc/snmpdv3.conf, not /etc/snmpd.conf.  (The active … Continued

Monitoring a Domain Controller (DC)

When monitoring a Windows domain controller server, you must monitor the server with your Collector services running under your Domain Administrator account. If you run your LogicMonitor Collector under a domain user that only has local admin privileges, this will not allow your domain controllers to be monitored via WMI. This has been known to produce … Continued

Windows XP

If you are monitoring Windows XP machines that are not in a domain, it is necessary to have simple file sharing enabled. This will force all remote connections (including WMI queries) to be handled through the guest account. To monitor such a system, you must either grant the guest account WMI and DCOM rights, as … Continued