System Monitoring

To verify that your TIBCO Messaging Monitoring - System Monitoring plugin installation is ready to monitor system performance, perform the following general tasks and confirmations.

Before you begin
  • Ensure that you have Python 3 installed before you begin.
  • Run the following script to install any Python dependencies required by TIBCO System Monitoring: 
    pip3 install -r /opt/tibco/msgmon/sys/requirements.txt

Start System Monitoring

Note: Note: The configured maximum number of file handlers must be high enough for InfluxDB to monitor multiple host. You can see the file handlers limit by executing "ulimit -n". You can set the file handlers limit by executing "ulimit -n <int>".

Start monitoring using the following procedure:

  1. Change to the monitoring directory: 
    cd /opt/tibco/msgmon/sys/bin
  2. Run the start script. 
    python3 msgmon-sys-start.py -sc /opt/tibco/msgmon/sys/config/sys_config.yaml

    You see an output similar to the following: 

    *************************************
TIBCO Messaging Monitoring - System Monitoring Plugin: 1.0.x Vx
*************************************
 INFO    [argument_parser.py:115] MSGMON-System logging level set to INFO
 INFO    [measurements.py:46] Successfully loaded all templates.
 INFO    [validate.py:40] Validation successful. System-config @/opt/tibco/msgmon/sys/config/sys_config.yaml 
 INFO    [starter.py:36] Status File @ : /var/tmp/root/tibco-msgmon/status/msgmon-sys.yaml
 INFO    [starter.py:54] Starting tibsys.
 INFO    [starter.py:102] Successfully wrote/updated TIBSYS config file  @ : /var/tmp/root/tibco-msgmon/TIBSYS_CONFIG/tibsys-config.yaml
 INFO    [starter.py:116] tibsys homepath : /opt/tibco/msgmon/sys/tibsys
 INFO    [starter.py:162] TibSys started @pid : 289
 INFO    [influx.py:263] InfluxDB server at http://localhost:8086 reports version 1.8.2
 INFO    [influx.py:356] Retention policy _persistent created with INF duration
 INFO    [influx.py:356] Retention policy _tibco_system_rp created with INF duration
Note: Note: To see all available options, use the -h option.

Check Monitoring Status

To check that the monitoring for all of the cluster elements has started, enter: 

python3 bin/msgmon-sys-status.py

You see an output similar to the following: 

*************************************
TIBCO Messaging Monitoring - System Monitoring Plugin: 1.0.x Vx
*************************************
 INFO    [msgmon-sys-status.py:139] MSGMON-Sys logging level set to INFO
 INFO    [msgmon-sys-status.py:94] Status File loaded from: /var/tmp/root/tibco-msgmon/status/msgmon-sys.yaml
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  TibSys Status : Running
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Stop Monitoring

To stop monitoring of a system host, run the stop script: 

python3 bin/msgmon-sys-stop.py

You see an output similar to the following: 

*************************************
TIBCO Messaging Monitoring - System Monitoring Plugin: 1.0.x Vx
*************************************
 INFO    [msgmon-sys-stop.py:169] MSGMON-System logging level set to INFO
 INFO    [msgmon-sys-stop.py:112] Status File loaded from: /var/tmp/root/tibco-msgmon/status/msgmon-sys.yaml
 INFO    [msgmon-sys-stop.py:120] Stopped process TibSys running with pid: 289
 INFO    [msgmon-sys-stop.py:138] Status File written to : /var/tmp/root/tibco-msgmon/status/msgmon-sys.yaml