Monitoring Lenovo xclarity using Nagios

[ets_user]

Hi,

We are using Lenovo hardware and we have Xclarity admin for monitoring the all the servers.

We tried to integrate Xclarity to nagios referring the link below.
https://sysmgt.lenovofiles.com/help/ind ... lcome.html

Completed till step 4 successfully and from step 5 its all execution in command line.

We have Nagios XI installed and we would like to proceed from step 5 in Nagios XI.

Would be great if you could help on this since XI is UI based and easy to understand and setup.

Thanks.

[cdienger]

Once you've installed a plugin and can confirm it runs from the command there are only a few steps that need to be done in XI to complete the integration:

-define the command
-define a service to use the command

https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... ios-XI.pdf covers the details of these steps.

[ets_user]

Hi,

Thanks for the document link share.

We tried the steps as mentioned in the link.
https://sysmgt.lenovofiles.com/help/ind ... lcome.html

In step 5 its mentioned we have to provide the instance name as given in step 3 (<XCLARITY_ADMINISTRATOR_NAME> is the name of the XClarity Administrator instance that you specified in step 3.)

But while executing step 3 command it did ask me only username password and URL.

So which name i can use it while defining the command and service.

And its throwing below error if i try with any name,

Warning
(No output on stdout) stderr: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/nagios/libexec/xclarity_integrator_check_v1.0.0.py", line 553, in <module>
status_lxca_bad, status_lxca_good, exit_status = check_lxca(_args, write_to_log_flag)
File "/usr/local/nagios/libexec/xclarity_integrator_check_v1.0.0.py", line 483, in check_lxca
bad_devices, good_devices, exit_status = get_bad_devices(_args.lxca)
File "/usr/local/nagios/libexec/xclarity_integrator_check_v1.0.0.py", line 206, in get_bad_devices
devices = get_devices(lxca_instance).get("nodeList")
File "/usr/local/nagios/libexec/xclarity_integrator_check_v1.0.0.py", line 92, in get_devices
return api_call("{0}/nodes?includeAttributes=name,overallHealthState,ipv4Addresses&status=managed".format(storedUrl), lxca_instance)
File "/usr/local/nagios/libexec/xclarity_integrator_check_v1.0.0.py", line 74, in api_call
f.write(certificate)
TypeError: expected a character buffer object

Thanks.

[ssax]

Use "system" for the instance name, let us know if that works.

[ets_user]

Tried to use 'system' as user name and added to NagiosXI.

But while service check getting the attached error.

Thanks.

[ssax]

What I meant was for you to use your standard username and password for the configurator but use the system in the command definition:

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command_line $USER1$/xclarity_integrator_check.py --lxca system

Did you do that?

Are you using version 1.0.0 or 1.1.0? 1.1.0 version is here:

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https://support.lenovo.com/ro/en/solutions/HT507298

[ets_user]

Yes , i tried doing the same.

And the Xclarity version we are using is 2.6.0.

Please let me know the corresponding plugin to be used.

Thanks.

[ssax]

Use this one here and rerun through the procedure to generate your credentials:

https://support.lenovo.com/ro/en/solutions/HT507298

Make sure you su - nagios before running the commands:

https://sysmgt.lenovofiles.com/help/ind ... lcome.html

[ets_user]

We tried the below and please find the logs.

Kindly advise.

[root@XXXX libexec]# python xclarity_integrator_check_v1.0.0.py generate_credentials
Enter username: admin
Enter password:
Enter URL for LXCA instance (example: https://10.252.48.38)
URL: https://XX.XXX.XX.XX
Please set a password for your new keyring
Password:
Password (again):
Please input your password for the keyring
Password:
Please input your password for the keyring
Password:
Please input your password for the keyring
Password:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "xclarity_integrator_check_v1.0.0.py", line 540, in <module>
generate_hash_credentials()
File "xclarity_integrator_check_v1.0.0.py", line 200, in generate_hash_credentials
certificate = get_certificate(url, username, password)
File "xclarity_integrator_check_v1.0.0.py", line 111, in get_certificate
return api_call_certificate("{0}/signingCertificate/pem".format(url), username, password)
File "xclarity_integrator_check_v1.0.0.py", line 82, in api_call_certificate
response.raise_for_status()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests/models.py", line 834, in raise_for_status
raise HTTPError(http_error_msg, response=self)
requests.exceptions.HTTPError: 403 Client Error: Forbidden

[ssax]

You're not running the right script.

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cd /usr/local/nagios/libexec
python Xclarity_integrator_check.py generate_credentials

Use the script here:

https://support.lenovo.com/ro/en/solutions/HT507298

Likely need to do this as well:

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chown apache.nagios /usr/local/nagios/libexec/Xclarity_integrator_check.py
chmod ug+x /usr/local/nagios/libexec/Xclarity_integrator_check.py