How to enable cdm probe (CA UIM) to automatically monitor new disks

Products

• DX Infrastructure Management
• NIMSOFT PROBES

Issue/Introduction

Below is a basic guide to create cdm templates, using the distsrv package distribution, that will set default settings for disks. This includes local disks and NFS disks.

Environment

CDM: 5.x

Unified Infrastructure Management (UIM): 8.x

distsrv 5.x

Resolution

To enable monitoring of any newly added disk, follow these steps:

 

1.Drag and drop the cdm probe from the robot into the archive. When prompted, choose Configuration Only and rename the probe. Example name "_cdm_cfg"

 

2. Locate the _cdm_cfg file in the archive, right click and select "Edit"

3. Right click the cdm.cfg under the "Files" tab - Select "Edit File". The cdm.cfx will now pop up in an editor.

3. Modify the cdm.cfx for the cdm probe on a robot where it is deployed so that the fixed_default section contains your required settings for the highlighted values shown in the following example. If you wish to monitor the size of nfs disks, set nfs_space_check to yes, like below. 

<disk>

   <fixed_default>

 

      active = yes
      qos_disk_usage = yes
      qos_disk_usage_perc = yes
      percent = yes
      qos_inode_usage = no
      qos_inode_usage_perc = no
      inode_percent = yes

      nfs_space_check = yes
      delta_calculate_all = yes
      delta_type = both
      qos_disk_delta = no
      <error>
         active = yes
         threshold = 10
         message = DiskError
      </error>
      <warning>
         active = yes
         threshold = 20
         message = DiskWarning
      </warning>
      <inode_error>
         active = no
         threshold = 10
         message = InodeError
      </inode_error>
      <inode_warning>
         active = no
         threshold = 20
         message = InodeWarning
      </inode_warning>
      <missing>
         active = yes
         message = DiskMissing
      </missing>
      <delta_error>
         active = no
         threshold = 10
         message = DeltaError
      </delta_error>
      <delta_warning>
         active = no
         threshold = 8
         message = DeltaWarning
      </delta_warning>
   </fixed_default>
</disk>

4.  If you wish to reconfigure existing monitoring to overwrite the previous disk configuration with the fixed_default properties - add the following before <fixed_default>. You will lose any previous data in the <fixed> settings in the cdm.cfg.

 

<fixed>clear

</fixed>

        5.   You can then deploy this configuration to target servers either as a standalone configuration or as part of a super-package.

 

 

Additional Information

• Cdm Release Notes
• How to create a Super Package

This article covers the legacy method of creating packages.
Please reference

cdm MCS Profile Type Configuration