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  • 1.  Deploy probe config files?

    Posted May 11, 2015 08:35 AM

    We are in process of migrating a NSM client to UIM

    One of the steps is migrating the old agent configurations to probe configs. But now we have about 4000 config files ready in a directory!

    What is the best/easiest way to deploy these configuration files to the robots/probes ? (these configs are created by a Perl, so we could always add logic, if needed, in this Perl to avoid any manual intervention)

    Thanks



  • 2.  Re: Deploy probe config files?

    Posted May 11, 2015 09:49 AM

    Hi,

     

    If you have them as UIM configuration files, you have some options available. Here's a few:

     

    1. Convert them to cfx format. This is how probe configurations are typically distributed. Here's for reference: Nimsoft Probes: packageeditor v4.0
      1. After that you can create packages in your archive and distribute them through several mehods. This can also be automated through callbacks to distsrv (and maybe ade too these days?)
      2. Alternatively you can create a script to copy them to the robots. Check out "controller" probe callbacks, it has the ability to transfer files.
    2. You could transfer the cfg files as is with controller callbacks. It's not quite as neat, though.
    3. Third party tools, which can get quite nasty.

    -jon



  • 3.  Re: Deploy probe config files?

    Posted May 12, 2015 02:28 AM

    The idea was to create only " <profiles> overwrite" sections and to find a way to update an existing profile.

    Does somebody have an example of a script that uses distsrv callbacks to create & distribute a package?

    Thanks



  • 4.  Re: Deploy probe config files?

    Posted May 12, 2015 11:15 AM

    I'm Jim Cooke, Product Manager for the UIM Server Core Services Team.

    You might also find value in the articles on how to use ADE (Automated Deployment Engine) https://wiki.ca.com/display/UIMPGA/automated_deployment_engine

    ADE has much better performance than distsrv and is the technology that we are investing in going forward.

     

    Jim Cooke, Product Manager, UIM Core Services



  • 5.  Re: Deploy probe config files?

    Posted May 12, 2015 01:14 PM

    Hmm, I suppose in your case it might be easier to read the configs from a file and use the probe_config_set callback on controllers. There should be a lot of examples in this community, just look for "probe_config_set". I've recently posted a script that utilizes it, it can be found at LUA script to add sqlserver connection based on ntservices scan



  • 6.  Re: Deploy probe config files?
    Best Answer

    Posted May 14, 2015 02:22 AM

    I found (and used) the cmdb_config probe (by Remko Dobber) that solves the difficult part of deploying configurations for you. (= no coding of call backs, only adding some extra lines in your config)

    Until now I did only some tests with some logmon configurations and this worked very good/quick..



  • 7.  Re: Deploy probe config files?

    Posted Oct 18, 2016 11:17 AM

    Hi Luc

     

    Where can I find the cmdb_config probe (by Remko Dobber)?

     

    thanks

    -manoj