Manually install probes in DX UIM

Products

• DX Unified Infrastructure Management (Nimsoft / UIM)

Issue/Introduction

In some rare cases it is necessary to be able to install probes manually.

How can install a probe to a robot if the robot doesn't have connectivity to a hub with ditsrv or ade? Can I deploy a probe manually? 

Environment

DX UIM 20.4.* / 23.4.*

Cause

Guidance

Resolution

It is possible to install a probe manually following the steps below. 

Steps to install a CDM probe: 

1. Zip the CDM probe folder  (Eg. Nimsoft\probes\system\cdm)  from a working system of the same OS as your target robot where you can't deploy CDM.
   
   
2. Copy the zip file to the target robot. 
   
   
3. Extract to the CDM probe folder replacing all files if they exist.
   
   
4. Copy and paste the following XML into the controller.cfg file located in the Nimsoft\robot folder
   
   <cdm>
   description = CPU, Disk and Memory performance probe
   group = System
   active = yes
   type = daemon
   command = cdm.exe
   config = cdm.cfg
   datafile = cdm.data
   logfile = cdm.log
   workdir = probes/system/cdm
   start_after = cluster
   magic_key = 
</cdm>
   
   
   
5. Enable the cdm probe
   
   
6. Restart the robot where you just installed cdm. 
   
   
7. After this is necessary to validate the probe. This is needed for the controller to create the the magic_key.
   Follow the instruction from the KB: Is it possible to re-validate a probe via the PU Command?

 

Additional Information

NOTE: It may be necessary to modify the file Nimsoft\robot\pkg\inst\installed.pkg as the version number and associated info could be missing from the probe when being displayed in IM.