Description

This connector provides environmental and disk information (temperatures, fans, etc.) on Sun SPARC T1/T2 servers equipped with an ALOM card. It gathers hardware information from the ALOM card in-band (no SSH connection over the network). Requires the SUNWexplo (Sun Explorer) package.

This connector is superseded by:

• SunPrtpicl^[2]
• SunHwMon^[3]
• CpMgServNT^[4]
• HPInsightwbem^[5]

This connector supersedes:

• IpmiTool^[6]

Target

Typical platform: Oracle/Sun

Operating system: Oracle Solaris

Prerequisites

Leverages: Sun Explorer and the ALOM-CMT card

Technology and protocols: Command Lines

This connector requires advanced privileges on the managed host for the command below:

• /opt/SUNWexplo/bin/snapshot

This connector therefore needs to run as root or you need to configure a privilege-escalation mechanism like sudo on the managed host to allow the monitoring account to run the command listed above.

Sample of /etc/sudoers to allow the above command to be run as root by the metricshub account:

metricshub ALL=(root) NOPASSWD: /opt/SUNWexplo/bin/snapshot

Examples

metricshub HOSTNAME -t solaris -c +SunScSnapshot --ssh -u USER --sudo-command-list /opt/SUNWexplo/bin/snapshot

resourceGroups:
  <RESOURCE_GROUP>:
    resources:
      <HOSTNAME-ID>:
        attributes:
          host.name: <HOSTNAME> # Change with actual host name
          host.type: solaris
        selectConnectors: [ SunScSnapshot ] # Optional, to load only this connector
        protocols:
          ssh:
            username: <USERNAME> # Change with actual credentials
            password: <PASSWORD> # Encrypted using metricshub-encrypt
            useSudo: true
            useSudoCommands: [ "/opt/SUNWexplo/bin/snapshot" ]

Connector Activation Criteria

The Oracle/Sun Solaris - Environment (ALOM-CMT snapshot) connector will be automatically activated, and its status will be reported as OK if all the below criteria are met:

• Operating System is Oracle Solaris or Oracle Solaris
• The command below succeeds on the monitored host
  • Command: /bin/uname -m
  • Output contains: ^sun4v$ (regex)
• The command below succeeds on the monitored host
  • Command: /bin/ls /opt/SUNWexplo/bin/snapshot
  • Output contains: ^/opt/SUNWexplo/bin/snapshot$ (regex)
• The command below succeeds on the monitored host
  • Command: while /usr/bin/pgrep "^snapshot$">/dev/null; do /usr/bin/sleep 1; done;/usr/bin/echo showplatform -v,13,14>/tmp/MS_HW_snapshot.test;/opt/SUNWexplo/bin/snapshot -c /tmp/MS_HW_snapshot.test -v|/usr/bin/dos2unix -ascii -437;/usr/bin/rm -f /tmp/MS_HW_snapshot.test
  • Output contains: ^SUNW, (regex)

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