Parámeters

Parámetro 

 Descripción 

 -c, --chckpath 

 Path of check_Control4i (Required) 

 -H,--host 

 IP address of the IBM i host on which the command is to be executed (Required) 

 -C, --conf 

 Path of the conf file with the commands (required) 

 -p,--port 

 If the default port 7357 cannot be used, it is possible to indicate which port will be used. 

 -t,--timeout 

 Specifies the duration (in number of seconds) that the plugin waits for a response from the host before indicating an error. The default value is 10 seconds. 

 -v,--version 

 Specify the version of the communication mode to be used between the plugin and the partition o V01 (default value) can be used for the vast majority of commands. o V02 (available as of February 2022) transmits the time of the monitoring server in addition to the command. the command. This parameter must be specified for the CTCHKTIM command. 

 -a, --agent_alias 

 To give a name to the agent that will contain the modules of the custom queries. 

 -m, --module_prefix 

 Prefix for modules generated by the plugin (optional) by default: 'IBM-i_'. 

 --tentacle_address 

 Ip of the tentacle server to send the data to (optional) 

 --tentacle_port  

 Tentacle port Default 41121 (optional) 

 -A, --use_alias_as_name 

 Use agent alias as agent name (flag) 

 -g,--group 

 Pandora FMS target group (optional) 

 --data_dir 

 Pandora FMS data directory. By default it is /var/spool/pandora/data_in/ (optional) 

 --as_agent_plugin 

 It is optional, if you want the plugin to be an agent plugin and put the modules in the pandora agent, execute this with a 1 (optional) 

   

 pandora_ibmi.conf 

 In this file the commands that you want to execute with check_Control4i and that will return the data that we will see in the PandoraFMS console will be introduced. You should introduce one command per line. 

 Example of conf file: 

 #Configuration file example with control4i built in commands

#check if control4i is running

ctchksbs control4i

#The CTCHKCFGST command checks that a configuration item (line, controller or device) is in the expected state. 

CTCHKCFGST *ALL *LIN *ACTIVE

#The CTCHKCPU command checks power usage by the system, all the jobs in a list of subsystems or by one or several jobs. 

CTCHKCPU

#The CTCHKCPU command checks power usage by the control4i SBS.

CTCHKCPU *SBS 2 80 90 control4i

#The CTCHKDSK command is used to monitor system ASP disk space usage, A Warning alert will be generated if the disk % used has increased by 5% over a period of 24 hours. A Critical Alert will be generated if the disk % used has increased by 8% over a period of 24 hours. 

CTCHKDSK ASP(*SYSBAS) EVOL_W(5) EVOL_C(8) EVOL_TIME(24)

#The CTCHKJOB command is used to check whether a job is active or inactive, check for CTAUTO Job

CTCHKJOB CTAUTO *ANY

#The CTCHKLOG command is used to count the number of error messages in a specific time.

CTCHKLOG 12

#The CTCHKPING command is used to check that a corresponding server is available (via the PING command) from the IBM i partition.

CTCHKPING '127.0.0.1'

#The CTCHKPRB command is used to generate an alert when a system problem is detected. System problems are visible with the WRKPRB command.

CTCHKPRB

#The CTCHKSAV command is used to check that the backups were made correctly.

CTCHKSAV