Validating the Data Collector Installation
The following directions assume that the Data Collector files have been installed in their default location:
Windows (C:\Program Files\Aptare) or Linux (/opt/aptare).
If you have installed the files in a different directory, please make the necessary path translations as you follow these testing instructions.
NOTE: Running some of these commands can take up to several hours depending on the size of your enterprise.
1. Open a session.
Windows: Open a command prompt window.
Linux: Open a telnet session logged in as root to the Data Collector Server.
2. Change to the directory where you’ll run the validation script.
Windows: At the command prompt, type:
cd C:\Program Files\Aptare\mbs\bin <enter>
Linux: In the telnet session, type:
cd /opt/aptare/mbs/bin <enter>
3. Execute the validation script.
Windows: At the command prompt, type: checkinstall.bat <enter>
Linux: In the telnet session. type: ./checkinstall.sh <enter>
The checkinstall utility performs a high-level check of the installation, including a check for the domain, host group and URL, Data Collector policy and database connectivity. This utility will fail if a Data Collector policy has not been configured in the Portal. Check for status, listed in uppercase: SUCCESS, WARNING, and FAILED. Warning messages often simply indicate that a subsystem, such as a tape library, is not part of your environment.
Checkinstall includes an option to run a probe for one or more specific devices. Note that certain Data Collectors will not allow individual selection of devices. Typically these are collectors that allow the entry of multiple server addresses or ranges of addresses in a single text box. These collectors include: Cisco Switch, EMC CLARiiON, EMC Data Domain, EMC VNX arrays, HP 3PAR, IBM mid-range arrays, IBM XIV arrays and VMWare. Data Collectors that probe all devices that are attached to a management server also do not allow individual selection of devices: EMC Symmetric, File Analytics, Hitachi arrays and IBM VIO.
Check for output similar to the following:
Meta Collector : VMWARE
Device to probe: 172.16.1.184
Task : com.aptare.core.virtualization.vmware.VMwareCollectorChildThread
Attempting to contact URL --> http://aptareagent.qaprod/servlet/util - SUCCESS
Validating Host Group Setup - SUCCESS
Validating Job --> com.aptare.core.virtualization.vmware.VMwareCollectorChildThread
VM Server esx.corp: SUCCESS
VM Server aptesx02.corp: SUCCESS
VM Server aptesx04.corp: SUCCESS
- SUCCESS_PERSISTING_VMWARE_DATA
Meta Collector : VMWARE
Device to probe: 172.16.1.184
Task : com.aptare.core.virtualization.vmware.VMwarePerfDataChildThread
Attempting to contact URL --> http://aptareagent.qaprod/servlet/util - SUCCESS
Validating Host Group Setup - SUCCESS
Validating Job --> com.aptare.core.virtualization.vmware.VMwarePerfDataChildThread - SUCCESS_PERSISTING_VMWARE_DATA
Meta Collector : VMWARE
Device to probe: 172.16.1.184
1. com.aptare.core.virtualization.vmware.VMwareCollectorChildThread
2. com.aptare.core.virtualization.vmware.VMwarePerfDataChildThread
3. Perform Checkinstall for all of the above
4. Previous Menu Group
5. Exit
Choose the task you want executed: 5
4. If the output in the previous steps contains the word FAILED, then contact the APTARE Global Support Services and have the following files ready for review:
/opt/aptare/mbs/logs/validation/
C:\Program Files\Aptare\mbs\logs\validation\