topic Re: Monitoring SAS environment with Ansible in Administration and Deployment

Monitoring SAS environment with Ansible

McDiddles — Wed, 11 Nov 2020 11:49:17 GMT

Greetings,

I would like to automate monitoring for my SAS 9.4 environments using Ansible. I want to develop a solution but I do not want to start from scratch.

Does anyone has some playbooks or shell scripts to share that does any of the following tasks?

Monitor sas servers status
monitor storage on specified mounts
check that web servers are responsive
Read logs for interesting information
send alert emails on the items above.

I you have anything, I'd highly appreciate it!

What additional monitoring tools do you use in your environment other than EVM? 😊

Re: Monitoring SAS environment with Ansible

CarmineVerrell — Wed, 11 Nov 2020 13:04:05 GMT

Hello,

Are you aware of this tool, SAS Environment Manager? It will allow you to do all of the things you mentioned below and much more.

https://go.documentation.sas.com/?cdcId=bicdc&cdcVersion=9.4&docsetId=bisag&docsetTarget=p04sfotmht7r60n188ykjolsicdw.htm&locale=en

Re: Monitoring SAS environment with Ansible

MarcoGhiglieri — Wed, 11 Nov 2020 13:27:29 GMT

Hi!
I've seen using Zabbix with the required personalizations (ports, filesystems, etc), but it was so "deep" in as the EVM. I'd advise to use EVM exposed SNMP traps for another monitoring toos (Zabbix again, Nagios, and so on).
I'd use Ansible playbooks just for restarting complex environments.

Re: Monitoring SAS environment with Ansible

kdebruhl — Wed, 11 Nov 2020 22:44:15 GMT

My team uses Zabbix for items 1-3 in your list. And 5. Everything except parse log files for interesting information. Not sure what you were planning with Ansible... periodic queries?

Zabbix handles the opsys issues and can be easily extended to do port checks and more.

Ansible for stop/start of servers though is a good idea.

Re: Monitoring SAS environment with Ansible

McDiddles — Thu, 12 Nov 2020 13:48:22 GMT

Wonderful tool indeed 🙂 I have been having cases where the mounts detach abruptly and gone with EVM, with 0 alerts as services immediately shut down 🙂