I deployed my first Operations Manager 2007 R2 agent on to a SUSE Enterprise virtual machine running on Hyper-V today.\u00a0 It took a little work because the documentation downloads from MS don\u2019t include this and the online documentation appears to be quite outdated \u2013 the dialogs are nothing like what they describe.\u00a0 I guess the guides are from the beta release.<\/p>\n
I did a mass import of the latest management packs and included the Linux ones I\u2019ll need in the future.<\/p>\n
I set up an account to manage the server.\u00a0 This was a admin account.\u00a0 If your Linux boxes are grouped to share usernames and passwords then you can use this approach for this account:<\/p>\n
The account was then assigned to the Action and Privileged RunAs Profiles.\u00a0 You could use two accounts if you wanted.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n
Next up was the Linux box.\u00a0 Ensure that its firewall allows the follow TCP ports in:<\/p>\n
TCP 5723 will be used for the agent to talk to the OpsMgr server.\u00a0 WinRM is used as a part of this so you need to configure it on the OpsMgr 2007 R2 managment server:<\/p>\n
winrm set winrm\/config\/client\/auth @{Basic="true"}<\/em><\/p>\n Finally you need to ensure that the DNS records<\/u> for the Linux box are set up:<\/p>\n The agent deployment would not work without the latter for me.\u00a0 I found no documentation of this.\u00a0 However, I did do a Linux discovery based on IP address.\u00a0 I need to test doing manual installations and a name based discovery.\u00a0 I\u2019ve a funny feeling the PTR was only required to get the name of the machine for the trust generation in the absence of a name in the discovery process.<\/p>\n I kicked off the discovery via SSH.\u00a0 That took a wee while and eventually I saw the process \u2026 discovery, installation, cross certification via SSH.\u00a0 Finally I linked the computer object (you could use a group) to the 2 RunAs profiles.\u00a0 The agent was now monitoring correctly.<\/p>\n I went into Authoring and set up a log monitor.\u00a0 That was easy.\u00a0 Look for a string in the log you want to search for and another to test for (they might be the same).\u00a0 Enter the name of the computer to scan, the log file (and location) to scan and the alert string to check for.\u00a0 You can also enter a test string that is already in file.\u00a0 You can test the monitor whenever you want with this.\u00a0 I saved it and allowed time for it to download to the agent.\u00a0 To test I logged into the Linux machine via SSH (putty) and typed:<\/p>\n echo this is a failure >> test.log<\/p>\n I did this at \/.\u00a0 Test.log was appended with \u201cthis is a failure\u201d.\u00a0 My search string was \u201cfail\u201d.\u00a0 Moments later an alert was raised and notifications were sent.\u00a0 Perfect.<\/p>\n I quickly followed this up with a monitor to check the health of the MySQL daemon.\u00a0 I can\u2019t test that because it\u2019s in production but it was easy.\u00a0 The template wizard scanned the designated Linux box for \u201cservices\u201d and allowed me to pick the mysqld process.<\/p>\n First impressions?\u00a0 This looks good.\u00a0 It\u2019s pretty well integrated and seems scalable in administration compared to the pre-OpsMgr 2007 R2 attempt at cross platform extensions.\u00a0 The only downside is that \u201cComputers\u201d is different to \u201cLinux Servers\u201d.\u00a0 Computers has all the Windows servers and only the Windows servers.\u00a0 I\u2019ll need to remember to check on both views for a health check.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I deployed my first Operations Manager 2007 R2 agent on to a SUSE Enterprise virtual machine running on Hyper-V today.\u00a0 It took a little work because the documentation downloads from MS don\u2019t include this and the online documentation appears to be quite outdated \u2013 the dialogs are nothing like what they describe.\u00a0 I guess the … Continue reading “Deployed My First OpsMgr 2007 R2 Agent On Linux”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opsmgr"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n