I am looking for a tool which is similar to CA UIM, but in open source. I would like the tools to monitor mainly our HP enclosures, blades, interconnect bays along with the virtualised server installed on each HP enclosure.
Depends how deep you need to go with monitoring.
If your needs are basic, Nagios, Chef and Graylog combined can generally get you pretty close.
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Most popular logging and monitoring stacks like ELK stack or Time series DB-Grafana are designed to be integrated. Can AppDynamics work with other samplers/DBs, in particular Prometheus?
There are integration tools available between influxdb/AppDynamics and grafana/AppDynamics.
https://github.com/Appdynamics/MetricMover
https://grafana.com/plugins/dlopes7-appdynamics-datasource/installation).
There's nothing that integrates between Prometheus and AppDynamics at the moment
I'm not sure there will be one going forward, seeing how they are competing in the same space from different vantage points (Open Source vs Enterprise)
Do I know, whether any load testing tool is there for testing SAP GUI based applications?
I have been using Load Runner as of now, but the license is going to expire soon. So, I am in a position to find the better replacement for the same.
Responses are appreciated :-)
Thanks in advance.
There are no open source tools for testing SAPGUI applications. Architecturally, none of the existing open source applications have hooks to the automation interface used by SAP. So, you may discount the previous answer which concentrates on web-based interfaces or a generic TCP interface. The interface for SAPGUI automation is on the client.
SAPWeb, on the other hand, may be tackled with standard commercial and open source solutions which architecturally support the capture, modification and reproduction of traffic at the HTTP protocol layer.
Renew your LoadRunner license. The cost in hours of labor to modify any of the available open source tools will more than exceed the cost of your LoadRunner license. You will need to establish a relationship with SAP for the interface documentation. You will need to build a recording interface and a playback interface. You can look to the R&D output from the big vendors, HP, Borland, IBM, to see what a non trivial and high engineering dollar challenge this is.
Is there an other way of monitoring the system threshold values (RAM, CPU) instead of SNMP?
There should be as simple way as client-server interaction since defining TRAP in SNMP is not easy at the beginning?
Thanks in advance.
Well if you're quering a Windows machine you can use WMI. It is really powerfull and there is also a Linux porting if you are quering from a Linux machine. For example if you want to monitor RAM usage you can execute the following query:
select FreePhysicalMemory from Win32_OperatingSystem
Now if you want more information I need to know your platform system and what language you will use.
I am new to network programming.
I have learnt the basics of SNMP and now I want to test out the commands.
I need to know what are the software tools available to set up SNMP manager and also to simulate SNMP agent. I would prefer opensource tools in linux.
Also suggest the pre-requisites to start coding for SNMP in C/C++, like libraries, compilers, IDE etc.
Thanks in Advance.
If you are on Linux Net-SNMP is what you're looking for.
I have used dxdiag before, but I would prefer to point potential users to some tool that's a bit simpler, that they can just run and email me the output.
As well as obvious things like CPU, RAM, graphics, DirectX version and Windows version, I also need to know if ExpressCard (a laptop standard) is supported.
I know this isn't quite a programming question, but it's critical to establishing a way to tell users if their hardware supports our software before we deploy it.
System Information tool (msinfo32). Comes standard with the OS; supports bunch of command-line switches as well, allowing you to automate it.
In particular, you can tell the users to just run the following command and email you the resulting .txt file:
msinfo32 /report "%USERPROFILE%\desktop\configuration.txt"
Or if you want a subset, just filter it out based on the categories.
Not sure where is the info about the ExpressCard in it, but it should be in there somewhere.
All this information will be available through the Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI).
There are some microsoft provided examples available here.