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 […]
The first step is to install the Appdynamics PHP Agent which will monitor the internals of PHP on this Ubuntu Server. We have downloaded the agent from https://downloads.appdynamics.com. This agent has no pre-defined configuration file included so we need to do the installation and configuration manually. Upload the agent and unpack it into a desired […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
This issue had us puzzled for weeks. The issue was that whenever we changed anything on one of our Agent Builder Agent even though the TEP support was correctly installed and the new support files downloaded by the TEP javaws client the views were still messed up, wrong order, incorrect titles, etc. The problem was […]
Since we are automating a number of things in our environment there was a need to list vms remotely using a script. We tried using PHP or the vmware vi perl toolkit but we couldn’t make any of them work. The problem with that PHP script we tried to use was that the SSL certificate […]
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 […]
This guide contains instructions for configuring PRTG Network Monitor software to send SNMP traps to a Omnibus. Prerequisites: working Omnibus instance SNMP probe (mttrapd) installed and configured More info on installing and configuring mttrapd. First step is importing the MIB file. PRTG Network monitor comes with a MIB file called PRTG-MIB.mib this file you can […]