How to configure CA SystemEDGE to monitor processes based on parameter received on execution line.

Products

• CA Systems Performance for IM (SystemEdge)
• CA eHealth

Issue/Introduction

Summary: 

How to configure CA SystemEDGE to monitor processes based on parameters received on execution line.

Background:

Certain application call the same process (binary) with different parameters to instruct it to provide different functionalities or services. As an example, many applications use java process as main process and service provided depends on the configuration file passed as parameter on command line that start it.

On this circumstances monitor the existence of main process could not help as many instances of it could be running, to distinguish it CA SystemEdge also allow to monitor the parameters used when process instance was started.

Environment:  

All environments

Instructions: 

1) Stop CA SystemEdge Agent

2) Modify the sysedge.cf to configure the file system watchers.

Sysedge.cf is in the CA SystemEDGE data_directory,

The default path in unix,

/opt/CA/SystemEDGE/config/port1691/sysedge.cf

The default path in windows,

C:\Users\Public\CA\SystemEDGE\port1691\sysedge.cf

3) Add your LogFile watcher to the sysedge.cf as this way:

watch process <attr> '<regexpr>' <index> <flags> <interval> <stype> <oper> <thresh> ['<descr>' ['<action>' ['<objClass>' '<objInst>' '<objAttr>' <severity>]]]

Example:

On next example we’ll check if it is running a process that contains in sequence at execution command line the “notepad” and “CAweb.cf” strings.

watch process procAlive 'notepad.*CAweb.cf'   13 0x800 30 absolute = 4 'CA Web Services' ''   'Process' '' 'Alive' Ok

4) Restart the CA SystemEDGE Agent

On windows you can restart the agent in the services.msc

On Unix you can go to run the following command:

/opt/CA/SystemEDGE/bin/sysedgectl restart

Additional Information:

KB000038277  How to configure CA SystemEDGE to monitor and evaluate amount of files on a specific path

KB000029809  CA SystemEDGE Monitoring Windows Performance Counters

KB000035359  Can CA-SystemEDGE monitor Custom Windows event logs?

Environment

Release: SYSPAG99000-5.7-Systemedge
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