Contents

System Monitoring Plug-In Installation Guide for Exadata Avocent MergePoint Unity Switch

Overview of the Plug-In

Versions Supported

Deploying the Plug-In

Adding KVM Targets for Monitoring

KVM Device Configuration

Setting Up Alerts

Verify Configuration

Verify the KVM Plug-in

Documentation Accessibility

Oracle® Enterprise Manager

System Monitoring Plug-In Installation Guide for Exadata Avocent MergePoint Unity Switch

Release 11.1.0.2.0

E20086-03

March 2011

Overview of the Plug-In

The Avocent MergePoint Unity Switch Plug-in enables Enterprise Manager Grid Control to monitor KVM (keyboard, video or visual display unit, mouse) targets. The plug-in provides status of the KVM and the event occurrences like Factory Defaults Set, Fan Failure, Aggregated Target Device Status, Power Supply Failure, Power Supply Restored, Reboot Started, Temperature Out of Range on the KVM target.

Versions Supported

This plug-in supports the following versions of products:

Oracle Exadata Storage Server 11g Release 2 (11.2) and later

Enterprise Manager Grid Control 11g Release 1 (11.1) and later (Oracle Management Service and Oracle Management Agent)

Oracle Management Agent 11g Release 1 (11.1) and later

Deploying the Plug-In

After you ensure that the prerequisites are met, follow these steps to deploy the plug-in to the appropriate Management Agents.

Download the KVM Plug-In archive file to your desktop or computer on which the browser is launched. You can download the archive from Oracle Technology Network (OTN).

Log in to Enterprise Manager Grid Control as SYSMAN.

Click Setup from the upper-right-corner of the Grid Control Home page, then click Management Plug-ins from the left-side menu of the Setup page.

Click Import.

Click Browse. Navigate to the directory where you have downloaded the plug-in JAR file. Select the JAR file, then click OK.

Click List Archive. The plug-ins within the selected JAR file appear in a list.

Select the check box for the KVM plug-in Release 11.1.0.2.0 and click OK.

Verify that you have set preferred credentials on all Agents where you want to deploy the plug-in.

In the Management Plug-ins page, click the icon in the Deploy column for the plug-in.

The Deploy Management Plug-in wizard appears.

Click Add Agents.

Select Agent from the Target Type pull down menu.

Select the Agent(s) you want to deploy the plug-in to, then click Select.

Click Next, then click Finish. The plug-in is deployed to the selected Agents.

If you see an error message stating that the preferred credential is not set up, go to the Preferences page and add the preferred credentials for the Agent target type. To go to the Preferences page, click Preferences from the top-right corner of the Grid Control page.

Adding KVM Targets for Monitoring

After successfully deploying the plug-in, follow these steps to add the target to Grid Control for central monitoring and management.

Click the Targets tab, the click All Targets.

Select Agent from the “Search” pull down menu. Enter the server hostname of the first database server name in your cluster in the search field, then click Go.

Click on the Agent you want to add as a target.

Select the KVM target type from the “Add” pull down menu, then click Go.

Enter the following parameters in the Add KVM page:

Name: Enter the switch name

KVM hostname or IP Address: Enter the IP address or DNS name

KVM console URL (optional) : URL for the KVM console

Click Test Connection to make sure the parameters you entered are correct.

If the test is successful, click OK.

KVM Device Configuration

After deploying the KVM plug-in to your Management Agent(s), you must configure KVM to send SMNP traps to the Agent host. As part of this exercise, you must set the device Application software version must be 1.2.8 or later. The current version can be obtained by logging into the web interface of the KVM. On the left side of the screen under Unit View, Appliance, Appliance Settings, click Versions to view the Application software version. Software updates for the KVM are available at:

http://www.avocent.com/Support_Firmware/MergePoint_Unity/MergePoint_Unity_Switch.aspx

Configure the KVM to send traps to EMAGENT host and recvlt listening port (i.e port value of EMD_URL property from $ORACLE_HOME/sysman/config/emd.properties. Say the port value is 3872.

Login to the management console.

Click on the SNMP link under Target Devices in the left-hand navigation bar.

Select the Enable SNMP check box and enter the appropriate community name in the "Read" "Write" and "Trap" fields ("public" in this example).

Click Save.

Click the Destinations link under SNMP in the left-hand navigation bar.

Enter the IP address of the database server hosting the Management Agent the KVM plug-in has been deployed to.

Click Save.

Now you must manually configure SNMP traps on the host where the plug-in is configured. The Agent receivelet port is specified as the value of the EMD_URL property in the $ORACLE_HOME/sysman/config/emd.properties file.

For the Enterprise Manager Agent to receive traps, an SNMP trap forwarder must be set up on the host where the Enterprise Manager Agent is running; so, that this forwarder utility can receive traps using port 162 and forward the same to agent recvlt's listening port.

Follow the steps on the system running the Enterprise Manager Agent. These commands must be run as root user.

Get the port value from EMD_URL property in the $ORACLE_HOME/sysman/config/emd.properties file. This is the port at which recvlt will listen over UDP for traps (for this example, the port value is 3872).

Confirm if recvlt is listening on this port over UDP. An entry should be seen in the below command's output:

netstat -an | grep 3872 | grep udp

Run the following command:

service snmptrapd stop

Typically the service command will be located in /sbin directory.

Add the following entry in /etc/snmp/snmptrapd.conf:

forward default udp:localhost:3872

Run the following command:

chkconfig snmptrapd on

Run the following command:

service snmptrapd start

Setting Up Alerts

After configuring the KVM targets to send SNMP alerts, set up alerts in Grid Control.

Log in to Enterprise Manager Grid Control as SYSMAN.

Click the Targets tab, then All Targets.

Select KVM from the search list, then click Go.

Click the target you are interested in. The target home page appears.

Click Metric and Policy Settings in the Related Links section of the page.

In the Metric and Policy Settings page, you can modify metric threshold values, edit monitoring settings for specific metrics, change metric collection schedules, and disable collection of a metric.

You can modify the thresholds directly in the table or click the edit icon (pencil icon) to access the Edit Advanced Settings page. For more information on the fields displayed in this page and how the thresholds can be modified, click Help from the top-right corner of this page.

Note:

Except for the Response metric, all other KVM metrics are push-based. For push-based metrics, threshold values are dealt on the KVM target side. The KVM target will generate traps to the Enterprise Manager Agent, and the same will be converted as EM events.

So, it is not necessary for the user to modify the threshold or collection schedules values for push-based metric in the Enterprise Manager console.

Verify Configuration

Using the snmptrapd command line utility or equivalent tool, the KVM configuration can be verified.

Follow the below steps on the emagent box by login as root:

Run the following command:

service snmptrapd stop

Rename the file /etc/snmp/snmptrapd.conf to be /etc/snmp/snmptrapd.conf_bk

Run the following command:

snmptrapd -p 162

Reboot the KVM to generate the SNMP traps.

The terminal where the snmptrapd command was run should display the received trap which is generated by KVM for reboot.

If step 5 is confirmed, then KVM has been configured correctly. Rename the back-up file and restart the snmptrapd service:

Stop the snmptrapd command that was started in step 3 above (use Ctrl+c to stop the command).

Rename the file /etc/snmp/snmptrapd.conf_bk to be /etc/snmp/snmptrapd.conf

Run the following command:

service snmptrapd start

Verify the KVM Plug-in

This section provides the steps to validate that the plug-in can receive SNMP traps that is generated by KVM and convert the received traps to EM events.

Prerequisites:

Install the plug-in.

Configure the KVM to deliver SNMP traps to the plug-in.

Verify:

To verify the KVM is configured correctly to send and the plug-in is configured correctly to receive a sample SNMP traps, reboot the KVM as mentioned below:

Log in to the KVM.

On the left side of the screen under Unit View, Appliance, click Overview.

Click Reboot.

Confirm KVM reboot by clicking OK in the window that asks if you want to continue.

In the EM console, go to the KVM target page and click the Alert history link. You should see the EM event for the generated trap.

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