GroundWork Profiles

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Overview

Nagios Monitoring configuration uses device-specific profiles that contain both pre-defined and user-definable monitoring parameter settings. Using profiles, administrators can quickly configure GroundWork Monitor to monitor groups of similar devices and benefit from GroundWork deep expertise in monitoring design recommended practices.

GroundWork distributes various profiles and offers an extended library of monitoring profiles for a variety of devices, systems and applications. The Profile importer tool is used to import additional profiles. For each profile, the services that run plugins are defined and grouped, so that they can be assigned and applied to hosts, or to groups of hosts.

The Uploaded category is provided as a landing zone for profile files uploaded to the GroundWork server by a local administrator. Distributed profiles are located in the monarch container in the /usr/local/groundwork/monarch/profiles directory, and within their respective principal category classifications as their parent directories.

A service profile is a collection of multiple services and once you have a service profile defined you can combine it with a host template and create a host profile. These profiles are not associated with a specific host. Also see Nagios Monitoring and How to manage host and service profiles.

This documentation is a continuous work in progress as we work out the updates for GroundWork Monitor 8.

GroundWork distributed profiles

Citrix (GDMA monitoring)

New to GroundWork Monitor as of the 7.0.1 release, these profiles are used to support GDMA monitoring of Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop. These profiles reference a variety of VBS and PowerShell scripts we already include in our Windows GDMA release. The principal category classification and parent directory for these profiles is Citrix. For additional information see, Citrix Operations Guide: Monitoring.

  • host-profile-citrix-xenapp.xml   --   GDMA based monitoring profile for all in one Citrix XenApp
  • host-profile-citrix-xendesk.xml   --   GDMA based monitoring profile for all in one Citrix XenDesk
  • service-profile-citrix-licensing-services.xml   --   Service profile for Citrix Licensing Server
  • service-profile-citrix-provisioning-services.xml   --   Service profile for Citrix Provisioning Server
  • service-profile-citrix-system.xml   --   Base OS service profile for Citrix Servers
  • service-profile-citrix-xenapp-extra-services.xml   --   Service profile for Citrix XenApp Server Extra Services
  • service-profile-citrix-xenapp-services.xml   --   Service profile for Citrix XenApp Server
  • service-profile-citrix-xendesk-services.xml   --   Service profile for Citrix XenDesk Server

Database

These profiles relate to the monitoring of various databases. The principal category classification and parent directory for these profiles is Database.

Hitachi (GDMA monitoring)

New to GroundWork Monitor as of the 7.0.1 release, these profiles are used to support GDMA monitoring of the respective Hitachi storage platforms. These profiles reference two distinct Windows binaries, check_HDvM.exe and check_HTnM.exe, which are not currently provided in our GDMA releases. The principal category classification and parent directory for these profiles is Storage. Additionally, see Hitachi profiles.

  • service-profile-Hitachi-AMS.xml   --   Standard selection of services for an Hitachi AMS
  • service-profile-Hitachi-USPV.xml   --   Standard selection of services for an Hitachi USPV
  • service-profile-Hitachi-VSP.xml   --   Standard selection of services for an Hitachi VSP

Linux-UNIX

These profiles relate to monitoring of machines running UNIX-like operating systems (Linux, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX). The principal category classification and parent directory for these profiles is Linux-UNIX.

Messaging

These profiles relate to the monitoring of mail and other messaging channels (Network News, Internet Relay Chat, etc.). The principal category classification and parent directory for these profiles is Messaging.

SAP HANA

The SAP HANA profiles are new to GroundWork Monitor as of version 7.2 and available only to GroundWork customers. You can review the SAP website for SAP HANA product information. Additionally, for GroundWork customers, see sap hana for GroundWork profile documentation (you will need to log in).

  • service-profile-sap-hana-sp-replication.xml
  • service-profile-sap-hana-sp-multitenant-replication.xml
  • service-profile-sap-hana-sp-multitenant.xml
  • service-profile-sap-hana-sp.xml

SNMP

Theses profiles use SNMP to monitor services on a remote device and communicate back information to the GroundWork monitoring server. The principal category classification and parent directory for these profiles is SNMP.

SSH

These profiles use SSH (Secure Shell) to monitor services on a remote device and communicate back information to the GroundWork monitoring server. The GroundWork standard method of monitoring UNIX servers is to have the GroundWork Monitor server connect to the monitored server using SSH and execute specially written plugins that return operating system and application properties. These plugins are included with GroundWork Monitor and numerous additional plugins are available in the open source community. The principal category classification and parent directory for these profiles is SSH.

Web

These profiles relate to the monitoring of various Web-related entities, capabilities, and protocols, such as web servers. In GroundWork Monitor, the principal category classification and parent directory for these profiles is Web.

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