Oracle/Sun Solaris - Network

Description

This connector enables hardware monitoring for network cards on all Sun Solaris systems.

hardware network solaris sun

Enterprise Connector

This connector requires the Enterprise edition of MetricsHub.

Superseded Connector

This connector is superseded by:

• CpqNICiLO
• MIB2Solaris
• SunHwMon

Target

Typical platform: Sun/Oracle Servers

Operating system: Oracle Solaris

Prerequisites

Leverages: Sun Solaris system commands (kstat, ndd, ifconfig, dladm, etc.)

Technology and protocols: Commands

This connector requires advanced privileges on the managed host for the commands below:

• /usr/sbin/ndd
• /usr/sbin/dladm

This connector therefore needs to run as root or you need to configure a privilege-escalation mechanism like sudo on the managed host to allow the monitoring account to run the commands listed above.

Sample of /etc/sudoers to allow the above commands to be run as root by the metricshub account:

metricshub ALL=(root) NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/ndd
metricshub ALL=(root) NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/dladm

Examples

CLI

metricshub HOSTNAME -t solaris -c +SunNetwork --ssh -u USER --sudo-command-list /usr/sbin/ndd,/usr/sbin/dladm

metricshub.yaml

resourceGroups:
  <RESOURCE_GROUP>:
    resources:
      <HOSTNAME-ID>:
        attributes:
          host.name: <HOSTNAME> # Change with actual host name
          host.type: solaris
        connectors: [ +SunNetwork ] # Optional, to load only this connector
        protocols:
          ssh:
            username: <USERNAME> # Change with actual credentials
            password: <PASSWORD> # Encrypted using metricshub-encrypt
            useSudo: true
            useSudoCommands: [ "/usr/sbin/ndd", "/usr/sbin/dladm" ]

Connector Activation Criteria

The Oracle/Sun Solaris - Network connector will be automatically activated, and its status will be reported as OK if all the below criteria are met:

• The device type must be one of: SunOS, Solaris
• The command below succeeds on the monitored host:
  • Command: /usr/sbin/ifconfig -a
  • Output contains: flags= (regex)

Metrics

Type	Collected Metrics	Specific Attributes
network	hw.errors{hw.type="network"} hw.network.bandwidth.limit hw.network.full_duplex hw.network.io{direction="receive"} hw.network.io{direction="transmit"} hw.network.packets{direction="receive"} hw.network.packets{direction="transmit"} hw.network.up hw.status{hw.type="network", state="degraded|failed|ok"} hw.status{hw.type="network", state="present"}	hw.parent.type id logical_address logical_address_type model name physical_address physical_address_type