I have more than 200 HP servers in my company branches and I want to automatically monitor server hardware errors. I can see all servers in my WAN.
I want to write a program to monitor HP servers remotely. My application must call an API or other functions remotely, and then get results from servers. After that I can send error signal to my administrators if needed, and my alarm system can read this information and etc. Is any API (or HP Proliant facilities) to get hardware errors and warnings remotely?
The Errors I want to monitor are:
Raid disk errors
Power Errors
CPU Fan Errors
I cant see more than 200 servers iLo GUI every day to monitor errors.
Yes, there is a way to monitor iLO via API. You should be able to integrate your application to the iLO RESTful API. there are some monitoring examples available on GitHub Python library.
you can get things like rest/v1/Managers/{item}/ActiveHealthSystem you might want to look into the complete data model.
Ana
HPE Employee
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I have been trying to figure out why Wake On Lan works for Right Click Tools, but not for SCCM Scheduled Deployments.
In the wolmgr.log file I found this happening every five seconds: "Failed to get WOL inbox on AMT Proxy component. Wait 5 seconds... SMS_WAKEONLAN_MANAGER 9/19/2018 11:32:24 AM 480 (0x01E0)".
In the wolcmgr.log file I don't see any errors except this happening about four times a day, which I think is referring to the endless errors shown in the other log file: "CBaseCounter::Initialize - Registered performance counter "Total Number of Packets failed" SMS_WAKEONLAN_COMMUNICATION_MANAGER 9/19/2018 2:01:59 AM 9496 (0x2518)"
I have tried to look up these error messages and haven't found anything to help me get this resolved.
I have tried various ports, including the default (9) and 12287, currently it is on 7. We are being told to use subnet directed broadcasts by our network team due to some limitations with our Cisco network configuration.
I do have a SQL Server Agent (ADK) service that was disabled. I enabled it and it starts but turns off immediately. I don't know if that is related at all. I did have some deployment issues with Windows 7 drivers giving errors during the task sequence, even though they were installing. So I installed a Windows 8.1 ADK after seeing an article about bugs with the latest Win10 ADK and SCCM Task Sequences installing Win7 drivers. I've since then installed Win10 1703 ADK, which works on one of my other SCCM servers on Win7 deployments fine, and I was having this WOL problem before installing 1703 ADK.
Under Administration > System Status > Site Status > Management Point, when I show messages I see these:
*Description Severity
Type Site code
Date / Time System
Component Message ID
Thread ID Process ID
The Wake On LAN component has failed to read the site control file settings. Possible cause: The information is not yet available. Solution: The component is waiting for the information to become available and will retry obtaining the information at its next interval. Error
Milestone CML
9/20/2018 12:47:56 PM SMS_WAKEONLAN_MANAGER
6500 3384
3988
Description Severity
Type Site code
Date / Time System
Component Message ID
Thread ID Process ID
The Wake On LAN component has failed to read the site control file settings. Possible cause: The information is not yet available. Solution: The component is waiting for the information to become available and will retry obtaining the information at its next interval. Error
Milestone CML
9/20/2018 9:39:03 AM SMS_WAKEONLAN_MANAGER
6500 2924
2636*
ADK SQL Server Agent
SCCM WOL configuration
WOL ports
wolmgr.log file screen shot
RightClickTools WOL Configuration
I run several game servers on a single windows-server-2012-r2. Many of the game servers run as console-application. I have created scheduled-tasks to run each on windows startup even if I'm not logged on. I would like to be able to attach to the consoles of those apps when logged on to the server, similar to what can be done in linux. Perhaps I'm going about this in the wrong way. Is there a way to attach to console apps running as tasks? Is there a software tool that accommodates this sort of thing?
Update:
Been searching high and low for a solution but haven't found anything yet. Have decided to write a wrapper for console app that will redirect Stdin, Stdout and Stderr of a process to a Telnet connection. Will use nssm to run the wrapper as a service.
I produced a solution: https://github.com/ccourson/Banjo
Banjo will launch a specified console application and route its streams to and from a telnet connection.
Pull requests welcome.
I'm trying to implement a distributed grep. How can I access the log files from different systems? I know I need to use the network but I don't know whether you use ssh, telnet, or anything else? What information do I need to know about the machines I am going to connect to from my machine? I want to be able to connect to different Linux machines and read their log files and pipe it back to my machine.
Your system contains a number of Linux machine which produce log data(SERVERs), and one machine which you operate(CLIENT). Right?
Issue 1) file to be accessed.
In general, log file is locked by a software which produce log data, because the software has to be able to write data into log file at any time.
To access the log file from other software, you need to prepare unlocked log data file.
Some modification of the software's setup ane/or the software(program) itself.
Issue 2) program to serve log files.
To get log data from SERVER, each SERVERs have to run some server program.
For remote shell access, rshd (remote shell deamon) is needed. (ssh is combination of rsh and secure communication).
For FTP access, ftpd (file transfer protocol deamon) is needed.
The software to be needed is depend how CLIENT accesses SERVERs.
Issue 3) distribued grep.
You use words 'distribued grep'. What do you mean by the words?
What are distribued in your 'distributed grep'?
Many senarios came in my mind.
a) Log files are distribued in SERVERs. All log data are collected to CLIENT, and grep program works for collected log data at CLIENT.
b) Log files are distribued in SERVERs. Grep function are implemented on each SERVERs also. CLIENT request to each SERVERs for getting the resule of grep applied to log data, and results are collected to CLIENT.
etc.
What is your plan?
Issue 4) access to SERVERs.
Necessity of secure communication is depend on locations of machines and networks among them.
If all machines are in a room/house, and networks among machines are not connected the Internet, secure communication is not necessary.
If the data of log is top secret, you may need encript the data before send the data on the network.
How is your log data important?
At very early stage of development, you should determing things described above.
This is my advice.
I am looking to collect data snapshot on a random interval from various machines in our network that we don't own, but may get access to install an agent to collect these data.
These machines are either in a domain or work-group and kind of data i get are based on the role they play and information they have. The machines are "Windows Server 2003" and above and I do not want to install anything on those machines before i get started, so thought I can use the PowerShell scripts that I can remote invoke form my server and pass the script it has to run to return the data.
I was wondering if this is possible to do that with the PowerShell scripts and as this is supposed to run in a secure environment, is there any major security implications with this approach. i.e. do I need to do anything on the client machines that can make them vulnerable to security threats.
BTW these machines are not exposed to internet and are behind a firewall.
I would appreciate if you point me to any other alternatives that can be useful for my analysis.
Regards
Kiran
We had an application that uses Process.GetProcessesByName() but it is failing only on one user PC with the following error:
Process performance counter is disabled
I searched the registry for the Disable Performance Counters entry but it was not present with the value set to 1.
The user env is XP with administrative rights.
I know that on Windows Server 2003, the user account needs to be a member of the Performance Counter Users Group in order to accomplish this.
Any ideas on how to enable Process performance counter?
Issues that can be responsible: .NET version isn't compatible , Performance Counters need to be enabled or permission problems
Quoted from MSDN
In .NET 1.0/1.1, the Process class relys on performance counters to provide performance information regarding local and remote processes.
.NET 2.0, this dependancy for local processes is no longer present.
This exception can be thrown for a couple of reasons:
Performance counters are disabled - The Windows Resource Kit contains a tool called the Extensible Counter List that can be used to enable/disable counters
The user doesn't have enough rights - non-admin users (I think) may not have enough permissions to access the performance counters.
If it's possible, install .NET > 2.0 and target the newer version
There is a tutorial which shows you how to use the Extensible Counter List to enable Performance Counters here
Open Performance Monitor by clicking Start > Run > Type in Perfmon and choose Ok.
Verify that the Process Monitor object exists, as illustrated in the screenshot posted above.
If the Process object exists, choose all of the Process objects counters and all instances, click Add, and then watch the graph.
Do they all run successfully?
If the counters are missing, then you will need to enable them.
Microsoft provides several KB articles to handle this situation. Begin by reading http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=300956
If the steps in this KB not work properly, and if your server is Microsoft Windows Server 2003, try the next step
Download and install the Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit on the Notification Server or Task Server
Open the Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit command prompt
Type in "exctrlst.exe" to bring up the Extensible Counter List as shown in the screenshot below and scroll down and enable performance counters