I currently have the JEE MP discovering Websphere Application Network Deployment 8.5.5 Servers, but they all appear as Red (or that the application servers are down) which is not the case. Any magic to get the monitor reporting on status correctly?

Thanks in advance

Hi,

Did you create the management pack with template yourself or downloaded somewhere?

If it appears as red, it should means that something is wrong with the server, would you please check alerts or warnings for the server.

And we can find out the monitor or rule that fire those alerts or warnings and check whether some configuration is not correct.

Regards,

Yan Li

I think I see the problem, but don't know how to resolve it.... I'm sure it would be a simple modification or override if Network Deployment is discovered on the machine.

There is a WebsphereDiscovery.vbs script failure trying to locate the server instances installed within a Network Deployment installation.

It looks for server instances in:

DriveLetter:\IBM\WebSphere\AppServer\profiles\AppSrv\config\cells\ServerNameCell01\nodes\ServerNameCellManager01\servers

But should look for the server instances under the NodeAgent that is running the servers:

DriveLetter:\IBM\WebSphere\AppServer\profiles\AppSrv\config\cells\ServerNameCell01\nodes\ServerNameNode01\servers

Any hints?

Thanks

Hello

We are  investigating this issue

Anurag Gupta,
Open Source Technology Center

• Edited by agup006Microsoft employee Saturday, June 21, 2014 1:35 AM

Another thing I noticed is that Linux Machines with IBM WebSphere Network Deployment edition are being monitored successfully with the Management Pack.

Hi Anurag, Are the talented folks within Microsoft gaining any traction on this request?

Hi Deem13,

We have been able to recreate the environment and are currently investigating possible workarounds.

If you have more information please contact me at my Microsoft email address, which is username 'anugup' at the usual Microsoft.com domain.

Anurag Gupta
Open Source Technology Center

Hi Deem13,

We have identified the problem for the automatic discovery of the WebSphere v8.5.5 Network Installation WebSphere Application Servers, and have added it to our list of changes due in the fall.

Another available option is manually discovering WebSphere Application Servers running the BeanSpy Applet.

You can follow Cristophers blog for manually discovered application servers here http://blogs.technet.com/b/random_happy_dev_thoughts/archive/2013/09/23/3499171.aspx

One addition needed for WebSphere v8 is within JEEAppServerLibrary.ps1 file mentioned in Christophers blog.

Change line 269 and add the highlighted line afterwards to allow WebSphere v8 instances

elseif ($serverType.CompareTo("WebSphere") -eq 0)

    {

        if (($serverVersion -eq "6") -or

            ($serverVersion -eq "7") -or

            ($serverVersion -eq "8"))

        {

            $isSupported = $true

        }

The Application Server will first appear in Universal configured Application Server, and then after a {few minutes few hours} the Application server will appear under Deep monitored profiles under the WebSphere Application Server folder in Operations Manager monitoring pane.

All the same features that a deep monitored profile offers (performance metrics, application health) will be available.

This has been verified using a WebSphere v8.5.5 Network Installation Application Server.

If there are any questions please contact me at my Microsoft email address, which is username anugup at the usual Microsoft.com domain.

Anurag Gupta
Open Source Technology Center

• Marked as answer by Yan Li_Microsoft contingent staff, Moderator Monday, July 07, 2014 2:29 AM

Hi Anurag, I made the suggested changes powershell script and that appears to work perfectly. I'm am however waiting on the applications to appear. I'll wait throughout the day and let you know where it ends up. Thanks for you time and effort,

The MP for Websphere is very poor.. No logs details and we canot find out why it is not able to find the Profile... No error but not able to find the Websphere Profiles... I don't why they are making this kind of products for third party and killing us to use... Poor development of JEE MP.. and Poor documents.. Pls refer IBM info center for ref to provide documents for your products.

• Proposed as answer by GLICUS 11 hours 10 minutes ago

Hi GLICUS,

What version of IBM WebSphere are you using? Is WebSphere running on Windows/Linux/AIX? What version of the management pack do you have installed?

Windows will have logs populating in the Windows host server event log

Linux/AIX will have logs in /var/opt/microsoft/scx/log/scx.log

The MP for Websphere is very poor.. No logs details and we canot find out why it is not able to find the Profile... No error but not able to find the Websphere Profiles... I don't why they are making this kind of products for third party and killing us to use... Poor development of JEE MP.. and Poor documents.. Pls refer IBM info center for ref to provide documents for your products.

• Proposed as answer by GLICUS Monday, March 09, 2015 8:07 PM