topic Re: server inventory in Administration and Deployment

server inventory

woo — Tue, 28 Feb 2017 19:41:25 GMT

Hello,

we have grid 9.4 environment with arround more than 10 servers/nodes + many different applications and wanted to get server inventory - can someone please tell what is best method or practice to get all details? any sas tool to use?

Re: server inventory

JuanS_OCS — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 09:38:31 GMT

Hello @woo,

the inventory question is a bit generic to me. What items do you want reported in the inventory? Servers? Services? Metadata objects? There are many kind of items that I can imagine that can be reported.

Some examples:

- APM/ACM included in EMI (Extended Monitoring for the SAS environment manager), provide many stored process that are capable of creating an inventory of some of the items on your deployment.

- Metacoda: excellent tool to create an inventory/report of your metadata and its authorizations.

- Nodes/resources: if you got grid, LSF/GRID should be able to report you also its compute tier resources (lshosts, bhosts, etc).

- Other 3rd party tools can help you to report/inventory other items, such as your network settings, hardware.

Re: server inventory

woo — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 15:10:59 GMT

Thanks Juan, infect trying to get servers and services details as inventory...also have EM but still in testing mode so cannot use it in prod yet,,,is there a way we can use OS layer (we have linux redhat) to get all those details? running any specific commands or existing scripts,,,

Re: server inventory

JuanS_OCS — Fri, 03 Mar 2017 13:13:16 GMT

Well, that is another bit of general question. For Linux commands I recommend you to search in google for something like "Top 10 Linux commands". You will get really good insights.

For SAS, you can always go to each SAS Config folder (LevN) and type ./sas.servers status . This will give you the SAS services.

Also, if you have Grid or Hadoop configurations, you can launch your system commands to all your machines included in that deployment. Commands as hostname >> /my_share/myhosts.txt can facilitate you to get the lists of your hosts with a single execution of commands.

Re: server inventory

woo — Tue, 21 Mar 2017 17:08:02 GMT

Thanks again Juan, you correct - ./sas.servers script would give pretty much idea about SAS services running on server or node. however, any trick to find LSF (lim/res/and all other services for grid environment? OR we have to run individual command to see if its running...Thank you...

Re: server inventory

JuanS_OCS — Wed, 22 Mar 2017 16:11:45 GMT

Type ‘ps –ef | grep <LSF_TOP>’ and make sure all daemons are running.
mbatchd and mschd only run on the master machine so they may not show
up.

For the Process Manager, the same: ‘ps –ef | grep <JS_TOP>’ should do the trick 🙂