ConfigSource that writes outputs to dashboard
A while back I published some very simpleConfigSources to monitor your collector .conf files: a href="https://communities.logicmonitor.com/topic/1345-collector-configsources/" rel="">https://communities.logicmonitor.com/topic/1345-collector-configsources/ Here's an adaptation that writes the various collected configs to a dashboard, writing each of the config outputs to a text widget. Notes: THIS IS A PROOF OF CONCEPT. No warranty is given or implied (value of your investments may go down as well as up, check with your health professional before taking this medicine, etc). Please test before deploying! As with all data within LogicMonitor (or any system), be aware of access rights of users - in this case to whatever Dashboard(s) the config data will be presented on. Be sure to configure your Roles and Users such that only users who have legitimate need to see this data can access whatever Dashboard(s) you send it to. This uses the REST API v1 to verify the target dashboard exists or create it if it doesn't, and also to create / update the text widgets. It will therefore need an API token for an account with management permission for the relevant Dashboard(s), with ID and Key values set as device propertiesapiaccessid.key and apiaccesskey.key. All of the API interaction is contained with a groovy checkpoint, rather than within the config collection script, so this could very simply be copied into other ConfigSources. The same logic could be used in other LogicModules, such as to write non-numeric outputs of SQL queries or any data collection methods to dashboards. While this provides no history retention as written, it will show current / most recent values. Within the script you can define the desired Dashboard path, e.g.'Collector Configs/Groovy Check' (default as presented here), Dashboard name (hostDisplayName is the default), widget name format (hostDisplayName: wildvalue) and other initial parameterssuch as widget colour scheme, description, etc. This is written for REST API v1. One day I may get around to updating it for v2, for greater efficiency, but today is not that day. Tomorrow is not looking likely either. Dashboard text widgets do have a maximum character limit (65,535 characters). I don't think I've seen a collector config near to or in excess of this, so I have no idea whether a larger config from another devicewould be truncated or whether the widget creation would fail. Other widgets on the dashboard are unaffected by this script creating and updating widgets; likewise later manual changes to widget size, colours, etc should be respected; updates should be to the text content of the widgets only, so the target dashboard could contain other data from the device. For example, it might look a bit like this: Known issues: On the first config collectionfor a multi-instance ConfigSource like this, and where the target dashboard does not already exist, only one widget will be created in the dashboard. This is because all instances collect more or less simultaneously, and each determines the dashboard is not initially present. Each, therefore, attempts to create the dashboard and as soon as the first instance does so, the others will fail as they cannot create a dashboard that (now) already exists. This could be coded around with a simple delay / re-check on failure, but I haven't had time, and the second config collection will create all expected widgets without issue. Additionally, if you create the dashboard first, this issue will not occur.7Views0likes4Comments
SDT Prompt for the Collector
I would like to see a prompt for SDT that when I specify "[location].All" LM asks if I would like to place the Collector in SDT. I would never think to look in "Settings" area to place the collector in SDT, or that when I specify "All" the collector is not included. I understand why it separate, but the location for SDT on the collectors is not intuitive. I naturally went to [Domain].Collectors, which was incorrect, after I was told the collector SDT is separate. Thanks0Views0likes0Comments1 to Many fail-over load balancing Feature request
Hi All, As we all know, that currently logic monitor has a feature to setup only 1 fail over collector. I would like to request for a feature, where we can have multiple fail-over collectors and in such a way that even if, the collector is active and polling objects, it still can be set as a fail-over collector. Thanks & Regards, Akash Pandya0Views0likes1Comment
LogicMonitor Collector installation on Windows Server Core
Windows Server Coreand(the free) Hyper-V Server Coreare GUI-less versions of Windows that can be administered remotely with GUI tools. We'verecently seen an uptick in requests for deployment of the collector to these platforms, as Windows introduces a lot of overhead with the addition of the GUI; the other compelling reason to go this route being that Hyper-V Core is a free license of Windows from Microsoft (similar to the free flavor of ESXi, only it can run a Windows collector!) Microsoft Documentation: Managing a Server Core Server Configure Server Core with the SConfig command Option A: Remote Desktop Install Establish a remote desktop session to the Server Core server usingthe instructions provided by Microsoft. Within the standard Command shell, type the word "PowerShell" to load a PowerShell session. Add a new (Windows) LogicMonitor Collector in your portal, and select the PowerShell command instead of the download. Paste (and run) the PowerShell command into the open PowerShell windows within the Remote Desktop Session on the Server Core server. You'll see a message indicating that the download has started, and after some time, the normal InstallShield Wizard will launch as expected. Complete the collector account configuration and proceed as you would with an OS with a GUI. Collect on! Additional methods are certainly possible (Windows Admin Center, Remote PowerShell, more?) and as I have a chance to test/ validate, I will continue to update this post.15Views0likes0Comments
Tuning a collector to work on a t2.micro EC2 instance?
I know that it is not exactly recommended/reliable to use a 1GB/1CPU Core machine to monitor...but it seems that installing a "nano" sized collector on a t2.micro AWS instance and having it just monitoritself brings the AWS instance to a screeching halt. I am seeing that when the collector is running, top shows that CPU pegs to 100% almost nonstop. Memory is not hit quite as bad..but it does get up there to use 500mb+ But the CPU load average is 5+ cores and it makes the systemunusable. Sometimes this causes the instance to throwstatus alerts & even crash. Question: Has anybodybeen able to tweak the wrapper.conf etc files to make the collector CPU load less demanding?Solved1View1like1CommentCollector could not verify/register if using Palo Alto SSL decryption feature
Just in case this helps other customers... SYMPTOMS: The Windows collector installed ok and the two Collector services were running but the collector could not finish the verification/registration step and showing the 'flame alert' on Settings > Collectors screen. After some troubleshooting, we looked in the wrapper.log file on the collector and saw this error message: [MSG] [CRITICAL] [main::controller:main] [AgentHttpService.checkCertificateOrWait2Valid:1029] The santaba server is not trusted, and "EnforceLogicMonitorSSL" is enabled. Wait 1 minute to retry. Please check the network settings, or disable "EnforceLogicMonitorSSL" in agent.conf and restart collector The customer set up a whitelist on their Palo Alto firewall for *.logicmonitor.com and it started working (or list of ~15 IP address ranges). Alternatively you can lowersecurity and changethe agent.conf (config file) fromEnforceLogicMonitorSSL=true to false.2Views0likes1CommentCollector REST API Requests
I would like the REST API to support Scheduling a collector version update Applying a one-time collector version update Working with the Collector Custom Properties (recently added I think, but don't see anything in the online documentation about support in REST API).7Views0likes4CommentsCollector dynamic groups
Collector groups were added recently, and are detailed here:a href="https://communities.logicmonitor.com/topic/637-collectors" rel="">https://communities.logicmonitor.com/topic/637-collectors Now let's expand upon that functionality...What ifcollectors be grouped dynamically? Identically to how Devices dynamic groups work,could I assign properties to collectors, then build dynamic groups based from the properties? Ways thatenvision sorting collectors: Production/test, primary/backup,collector number (1-99, 100-199, 200-299, etc.),zip code, time zone, alphabetical. In each of these cases, this would give full flexibility on how collector upgrades are scheduled. Currently if we have a mass collector upgrade to a new General Release, it can be a little painful to manage so many upgrades running simultaneously (or at least in very short order). I am most interested in being able to split them up into primary, backup and single collector groups. This way, I know that it's pretty safe to upgrade the collectors that have backups after hours, since there is another collector to failover to. And I surely want to be available staff-wise if I am doingupgrades for those collectors that have no backup collector. Close behind sorting into primary/backup/singleis the need to sort them by customer (which currently works fine). The issue is that you can't put a collector into more than one group, which precludes from even setting up these to items manually.1View1like1CommentAlert suppression when collectors are unreachable
Hi I am having a frustrating experience when I have tried to make LM redundant using multiple collectors, but then I am at the mercy of the customers internet connection so when the collectors go down, I then get a couple of thousand host status events rather than a number of critical collector alerts making it very hard to see the wood for the trees in the UI alerts page as I cannot just filter out host status alerts as I could have more from other customers. Am I missing something? Doothers have a decent scalable workaround? Has this been raised as a feature request before? and if so is there a reason its not materialised? Thanks in advance David0Views0likes2Comments
Collector 27.002 Memory Leaks
Has anyone else experienced any issues with Collector27.002? I updated our SNMP collector (8G RAM, about 600 devices) a few days ago and twice it has gone down with memory maxing out. Have downgraded back to 27.000. I did a Send Logs to LogicMonitor, if it helps.2Views0likes2Comments