Appdynamics

How to set up multitenancy @ Appdynamics Controller

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Setting up multitenancy in Appdynamics is relatively easy. This is basically a setting at the controller’s admin console not to be confused with the standard console. You can access your controller admin console at  http://hostname:8090/controller/admin.jsp Once you are logged into the controller’s admin backend click on Controller Settings, then locate multitenant.controller setting and set it […]

Appdynamics

Installing Appdynamics Machine Agent on Ubuntu 16.04.4

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Downloading and installing the Appdynamics Machine Agent We have recently set up a test environment with a PHP/MySQL based test Ubuntu 16.04.4 server. We will now set up monitoring for Linux OS, PHP 7.0 and MySQL. The first step is downloading the machine agent. Open your Appdynamics console and select the Getting Started Wizard. Then […]

MS SQL Server

Install and configure ODBC Drivers on Linux – SLES

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We ran into this issue that the proper MS SQL drivers for SLES/PHP are unavailable. There is no phpX-mssql package on the official development media to install, therefore we had to find an alternative solution to access and write data into an MS SQL database from our SLES server. After some research we decided to […]

CentOS

Install PHP DB2 libraries on CentOS

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We came across the requirement to manipulate DB2 using PHP scripts. In order to be able to do that you need to the DB2 libraries installed on your machine. First of all install DB2 Express ( desired version, we used 11.1 ). Make sure you are installing the development libraries with the product as you […]

IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6

CTRA Server: no transports available, ffffffff. Server shutting down

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We run into the CTRA Server: no transports available, ffffffff Server shutting down issue recently on both our Windows and Linux servers. This might happen when the agent starts and the only communication protocol enabled is ip.spipe. The agent doesn’t connect in fact it shuts down after this error message like in this example: (59D09A0D.0077-1:kraaumsg.cpp,107,”CTRA_msg_no_transports”) CTRA […]

Omnibus

Installing and Configuring the Netcool Omnibus SCOM 2007 Probe

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In this article we will install and configure the Netcool Omnibus SCOM 2007 Probe. The probe will be installed on a separate machine and will contact the SCOM server across the network. The following steps will be performed to achieve the integration: Install probe support Install the SCOM probe Configure the SCOM probe to communicate […]