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Table Of Contents
- Endpoint Operations Management Agent Plug-in Development Kit
- Contents
- About the Endpoint Operations Management Agent Plug-in Development Kit
- Introduction to Plug-in Development
- The Role of the Server and Agent in Plug-ins
- Technical Overview
- Plug-in Implementations
- Using Support Classes to Simplify a Plug-in
- Writing Plug-ins
- JMX Plug-in
- Script Plug-ins
- SNMP Plug-in
- JMX-Based Management
- Auto-Discovery of JMX Resources
- Configuration Properties for JMX Monitoring
- Creating a Custom JMX Plug-in
- Defining Service Types to Provide Management via Custom MBeans
- Defining an ObjectName to Access Custom MBeans
- Defining Configuration Properties to Appear in the User Interface
- Defining and Gathering Metrics
- Specifying the Availability Metric for MBeans
- Implementing Control Actions
- Defining the Server Auto-Inventory Element
- Discovering Custom Properties
- Running and Testing Plug-ins from the Command Line
- Using Auto-Discovery Support Classes in Plug-ins
- Working with Plug-in Descriptors
- Plug-In Support Classes
- Index
<property name="DEFAULT_PROGRAM" value="controlscript.bat"/>
<actions include="start"/>
</server>
</plugin>
iostat Script Example
<pluginname="IoDevice">
<property name="version"
value="1.0"/>
<service name="I/O Device">
<config>
<option name="script"
description="Collector script"
default="pdk/scripts/device_iostat.pl"/>
<option name="device"
description="Device name"
default="sda"/>
</config>
<filter name="template"
value="exec:file=%script%,args=%device%"/>
<metric name="Availability"
template="${template}:Availability"
indicator="true"/>
<metric name="Read Requests Merged per Second"
category="THROUGHPUT"
template="${template}:rrqm/s"/>
<metric name="Write Requests Merged per Second"
category="THROUGHPUT"
template="${template}:wrqm/s"/>
<metric name="Read Requests per Second"
category="THROUGHPUT"
indicator="true"
template="${template}:r/s"/>
<metric name="Write Requests per Second"
category="THROUGHPUT"
indicator="true"
template="${template}:w/s"/>
<metric name="Sectors Read per Second"
category="THROUGHPUT"
template="${template}:rsec/s"/>
<metric name="Sectors Writen per Second"
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