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Discovery

This plugin can be used from Pandora FMS Discovery.

Upload the corresponding .disco package from the Pandora FMS library or from the console plugin management view. After that, Azure SQL monitoring tasks can be created from the Cloud/Application Discovery section.

The Azure credentials step asks for:

  • Tenant ID: Azure tenant used by the Service Principal.
  • Subscription ID: Azure subscription where resources will be discovered.
  • Client ID: Service Principal application identifier.
  • Client secret: Service Principal secret.
  • API endpoint: Azure management endpoint. Leave it empty for standard public Azure.
  • Login endpoint: Azure authentication endpoint. Leave it empty for standard public Azure.

The SQL discovery step controls resource discovery and agent creation:

  • Resource group: optional filter to limit discovery to one resource group.
  • SQL server name: optional filter to limit discovery to one SQL server.
  • Database name: optional filter to monitor one database.
  • Create agent per database: when enabled, each database creates its own Pandora FMS agent. When disabled, all modules are sent to Target agent.
  • Target agent: destination agent used only when Create agent per database is disabled.
  • Agent prefix: optional prefix for agents created per database.
  • Module prefix: optional prefix for generated module names.
  • Agent interval: interval assigned to created or updated agents.
  • Timeout: HTTP timeout for Azure calls. Values below 30 are treated as 30 seconds.
  • Scan databases: queries Azure to discover databases.
  • Enable entities file re-scan interval: enables periodic refresh of the discovered entities file.
  • Re-scan entities file interval: interval used to rebuild the entity cache when re-scan is enabled.
  • Skip master database: prevents the master database from being monitored.

The Modules step enables or disables module groups:

  • Performance modules: creates CPU, DTU, physical data read, log write, sessions, and workers percentage modules.
  • Storage modules: creates data space used, data space used percentage, and allocated data storage modules.
  • Connection modules: creates successful, failed, and firewall-blocked connection modules.
  • Tempdb and XTP modules: creates tempdb data size, tempdb log size, tempdb log used percentage, and XTP storage modules.
  • Deadlock modules: creates the deadlock count module.

Successful executions include a summary similar to:

  • resources_discovered: number of databases discovered in the current run.
  • resources_vanished: number of previously stored databases that no longer appear in the current discovery.
  • modules: total number of generated modules.
  • errors: number of errors detected during execution.
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