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What monitoring solutions are you using with CLM MBeans / Liberty ?

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Ulf Arne Bister
(1.3k●4●13) Jun 12 '18, 2:52 a.m.
Team,

running a distributed CLM 6.0.5 architecture on Liberty, RedHat Linux Servers. I am looking for guidance what kind of monitoring software (e.g. Splunk) you are using successfully which processes the Liberty and CLM provided MBeans? Performance, easy setup and easy integration with Libery would be a plus.

Thanks for any pointers as to what works in the real world.

- Arne

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Ralph Schoon
FORUM ADMINISTRATOR / FORUM MODERATOR / JAZZ DEVELOPER (63.9k●3●36●48) Nov 27 '18, 8:07 a.m.

 Arne,


are you aware of: https://jazz.net/library/article/91590 ? It contains some suggestions and options our development used.

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Prashant K
(11) Nov 27 '18, 5:23 a.m.
You can use any monitoring tool that can collect data from JMX MBeans.

With Splunk, you'd need to use Add-on for Java Management Extensions.
Connect to liberty servers over REST interface.
Create templates to describe CLM JMX MBeans to Splunk.
And you should get required data.


Thanks,
Prashant


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Ulf Arne Bister
(1.3k●4●13) Nov 28 '18, 4:40 a.m.
Ralph,
yes, quite aware. In fact, I wrote the first comment under that article ;-)

The article highlights which mBeans to use but gives no concrete recommendations on what monitoring solution to use to gather the mBeans. What we have now deployed in the project is Jolokia. Other customers have used Splunk in the past but I think they moved away - not sure of the reason. Probably Nagios would work, too. I just do not know of anybody actually using it with Jazz. Hence this post.
The one thing I am certain nobody uses productively is JConsole because of the overhead and performance impact (and no graphical UI). There is still some considerable effort that has to be put into setup to consume the mBeans in professional monitoring solutions. Most solutions provide out of the box monitoring plugins for Liberty and DB2 though so that saves time and money. I have yet to find an open source solution that would provide what is needed for enterprise level monitoring.  There are lists of open source monitoring solutions but who has the time to install them and get them to run with ye olde Jazz mBeans? If anybody has done this, please share.

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Vishnu Kumar
(26●2●16●27) Sep 16 '19, 10:43 a.m.

We are planning to go for splunk. anyone who is already using it ?

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Todd Dunnavant
Sep 17 '19, 4:20 a.m.
Hi, Vishnu,

I'm the global lead for IBM's Engineering Lifecycle Management services practice.

We have a major automotive customer who has been using Splunk for around a year.  We are on the cusp of working with a couple of other significant clients to implement monitoring using Splunk.

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Vishnu Kumar
Sep 17 '19, 4:20 a.m.

Hi Todd,

Glad to hear that. Is it possible to get in touch personally ? we are also a automotive company and we are looking to implement Splunk. I hope your team might help us.

Did you use Splunk enterprise ?

Regards
Vishnu

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