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Azure probe

 Nimsoft probe for Windows Azure platfrom from Microsoft

Probe Installation

The azure probe installs via drag-and-drop from the Nimsoft Infrastructure Manager. The probe is run by the robot via the standard runprobe.bat on Windows and runprobe.sh on UNIX.

Java 1.6.0_14 or later can be installed either using the standard Java installer available from Sun (http://www.java.com/en/download/manual.jsp) OR by dragging the jre/java_jre package from your Nimsoft package archive onto your robot. Please see the java_jre documentation from Nimsoft for more details.

If you install using Sun's installer, please ensure that java.exe is available on your path environment variable. The probe is launched by the Nimsoft robot and thus inherits its process environment. To examine your robot's environment, launch the Infrastructure Manager, right-click on your robot and choose Properties. Click the Robot environment button. If you need to manually modify your robot's environment, you must restart your computer to make the changes visible to your robot.

Configuration GUI Installation

The Azure probe configuration GUI is automatically downloaded and installed by the Nimsoft Infrastructure Manager when probe configuration is attempted. The configuration GUI has the same Java requirements as the probe and supports the same Java installation methods on the computer running the Infrastructure Manager.

Important Note: If you choose the java_jre installation method, the configuration GUI may fail to startup if more than one java_jre package is installed and one or more of the java_jre packages is for a version of Java that is earlier than 1.6.0_14. In this situation you must remove obsolete java_jre packages before attempting to launch the configuration GUI.
Revision history
Date Description State Version
21.06.2023

What's New:

Added support to monitor the metrics of the following COSMOS Database:

  • Mongo Database
  • NoSQL Database
  • PostgreSQL Database
  • Cassandra Database
  • Gremlin Database
  • Table Database
SHA-256 Checksum: 5ef51cf6c99973db8572145a394e8a89017992abcc4cd757539c227ddfedec62 		GA 3.20
14.03.2023

What's New:

  • The Azure storage pointing to azure classical storage is upgraded to point to azure storage monitor.
  • The Azure storage monitor provides REST APIs to get data from storage.
  • The metric names remain the same.
SHA-256 Checksum: f5d841cb89d4b912d32dd74cb645d87ed444d948bf6bf45763cc4b444984f0a2 		3.19
01.12.2022

Fixed Defects: Azure probe API updates and fixes-

  • Fixed issues in viewing Linux memory metrics. (Suuport Case: 32989172)
  • Updated the Azure probe to support the latest APIs that bring performance and stability improvements with a longer support cycle. (Support Case: 33035452)
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31.01.2022

What's New:

  • Enhanced the Azure probe to capture disk usage and free disk space in percentage for the VMs.
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01.08.2019

Whats' New:

  • Introduced Azure Alerts which forwards all alerts on the Azure system to DX Infrastructure Manager. Azure Alerts proactively notify you when important conditions are found in your Azure monitoring data. They allow you to identify and address issues before the users of your Azure system notice them. By default, the Azure Alerts feature is disabled. For more information, see azure AC Configuration.
  • A new and improved MCS Template (version 3.15) which has additional support for the Azure Alerts feature.

For more information, refer https://docops.ca.com/rest/ca/product/latest/topic?hid=azure_RN&space=UIMPGA&language=&format=rendered

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26.04.2019

What's New:

  • Added support for the following Azure Services:
    • Event Subscriptions
    • Traffic Manager Profiles
    • Virtual Network Gateways
    • Express Route Circuits
    • Express Route Circuits Peerings

To view the added service types in the alarm, you need to update the subsystem IDs table that is maintained by the NAS and EMS probe. For more information, see the Upgrade section.

  • The metric IDs for the following services have been updated:
    • Azure Function App Service
    • Load Balancer Service
    • Azure Kubernetes Service (Managed Cluster AKS) Service
    • Service Bus Queue
      For more information see azure Metrics.

Fixed Defect:

  • Fixed an issue where the Azure probe displayed incorrect graph data. For example, the a website response time is displayed as 0.02ms while the actual data is 250ms. (Support case 01272291)

For more information, refer https://docops.ca.com/rest/ca/product/latest/topic?hid=azure_RN&space=UIMPGA&language=&format=rendered

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28.12.2018

What's New:

Added support for:

  • Subscribing to RSS feed for Azure Service Health Status by Region. This is supported for all regions for the services that the probe supports.
  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Service
    For the Kubernetes service, the list of cluster instances being monitored and their hierarchy along with cluster- level metrics that Azure provides are displayed.
  • Load Balancer Service
    For the Load Balancer service, the Load Balancing instance, Backend Pool and Health Probe instances are listed and their relationship hierarchy is displayed. Metrics are only collected and displayed for Standard Load Balancers, that Azure provides.
  • Azure Function App Service
    For the Function App service. the list of function app instances being monitored by the Azure subscription are listed and their relationship hierarchy is displayed.
    Metrics for Function App Services are displayed, only at the Resource-Group level, as a sub-service under the existing (non-function) Website / Web Application Services that the Azure probe monitors.

This is Beta build.

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30.06.2017

What's New:

  • Added new types with new metrics
  • Monitoring for Virtual Machine Scale Sets
  • Monitoring for Service Bus
  • Monitoring for Event Hub Service

Fixed Defects:

  • Fixed data collection issues where the Azure probe was breaching Azure subscription level limits preventing use of the storage accounts and their VMs.
  • Classic and Resource Manager Azure VMs with the same IP address are now decorrelated properly so that they appear as multiple VMs.
  • Fixed an issue with missing requests with 429 errors in the log. (Case #00682847)
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3.11
18.04.2017

What's New:

  • Added additional properties for creating Azure groups in UMP.
  • Updated the names of some configuration fields to be consistent with a Microsoft Azure environment.

Fixed Defects:

  • Fixed data collection issues that were caused by VMs utilizing the new Azure Managed Disks feature. (Case #00698604)
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 3.02
16.02.2017 md5: 1a7ae5847889c9c127bbdbcb989b715d

Fixed Defect:


  • Added additional properties for creating Azure groups in UMP.
  • Updated the names of some configuration fields to be consistent with a Microsoft Azure environment.


What's new:


  • Fixed an issue where the probe configuration GUI did not show the device inventory if MCS templates were enabled.
 3.01
27.12.2016 What's New:
  • Made metric collection for classic VMs more robust.
  • Added support for metric configuration through Monitoring Configuration Service (MCS).
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 3.00
22.11.2016 What's New:
  • Added support for the Azure resource manager API
  • Added new metrics
  • Improved collection performance

    • For Detailed Release Notes-Please refer
    https://docops.ca.com/ca-unified-infrastructure-management-probes/en/alphabetical-probe-articles/azure-microsoft-azure-monitoring/azure-ac-configuration-pre-release

    Known issues:
  • Classic VM metric collection is flaky. Data is often delayed by more than 5-10 minutes. This matches the availability of data in the Azure Portal metric graphs.

    • Note:
    Please install the latest ci_defn_pack.zip version 1.29 to the robot with your nisserver (then restart nisserver) to view all metrics in USM.     		2.99
    26.06.2015 Added Features:
  • On upgrading the probe from version 2.01 to 2.10 or later, only one Azure Subscription can be associated with a profile.
  • Ability to create monitoring configuration templates. The templates allow you to apply consistent monitoring configurations across multiple profiles using filters.
  • Factory template for monitors available on the Azure Dashboard.
  • Support for dynamic variables using CA UIM 8.3 or later

    • Fixed Defect:
    Azure service health data was not populated on the probe GUI. (Salesforce Case: 160988).

    For Detailed Release Notes-Please refer
    https://wiki.ca.com/rest/ca/product/latest/topic?format=rendered&language=&space=UIMPGA&hid=azure_RN

    Note: Salesforce case(s) may not be viewable to all customers.     		2.10
    26.12.2014 Fixed an issue where the password was appearing as plain text in the probe logs
    For Detailed Release Notes-Please refer
    https://wiki.ca.com/rest/ca/product/latest/topic?format=rendered&language=&space=UIMPGA&hid=azure_RN     		2.01
    10.12.2014 First release of the probe for Admin Console GUI.
    The probe is now available only through the web-based GUI and not through the Infrastructure Manager (IM) GUI.
    Added support for monitoring the health and performance of Microsoft Azure Infrastructure and services including Virtual Machines(VMs),websites and storage Note: Upgrade from previous versions to version 2.0x and later is not supported. Note: Probe is supported from CA UIM 7.6 and later only.     		2.00
    18.08.2010 Fixed a bug in the default sampler template
    Added support for localized alarm messages
    		1.01
    15.07.2010 First version of the Azure probe.
    		1.00
    Requirements
    Platform: The Azure probe runs on Microsoft Windows only.
    Please refer to the Platform Support Matrix located in the Download section of http://support.nimsoft.com
    Software: Java version 1.6.0_14 or higher
    .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1
    Hardware: None