How to add Prometheus Agent Details

How to add agent details to Prometheus on cfxPulse

The set of credentials required depends on type of OS and application. The following provides related information.

a) To Monitor Linux only device

i) Exporter name should to be selected as 'Node'

ii) Additional exporter name should be the process

b) To monitor Windows only device

i) Exporter name should be selected as 'WMI'

c) To monitor your application on Linux OS:

The following two credentials are required

Credentials 1:

i) Exporter name should be 'Node'

ii) Additional exporter name has to be process

Credentials 2:

i) Exporter name should be 'Node'

ii) Additional exporter name has to be your application

d) To monitor your application on Windows OS:

i) Exporter name should be 'WMI'

ii) Additional exporter name has to be your application.

Step by Step procedure to add agent in cfxPulse:

Step 1: Login to cfxPulse and from left menu, chose 'Configuration' as shown below

Select Configuration

Step 2: Click on Discovery tab once customer is selected on the left as shown.

Select Discovery tab

Step 3: Click on Environment shown. For example defaultEnvironment as shown below

The following screen is shown after selecting the environment

display of infrastructure account

Step 4: Select Device Credentials tab and following screen is displayed.

Device Credentials

Step 5: To add new device credentials, click on '+' sign towards right as shown

Click + to add new device credentials

The following screen is shown

Step 6: Enter name, description and select 'Prometheus' as device type as shown

Click Next and enter Login credentials (Sample as shown below)

Please select the exporter name for example, the list of supported device exports are shown. Please note the list expands to support new devices and the screen shows few of the current list supported. Currently Node is for Linux machines and WMI is for windows machines.

Let us say we want to monitor OracleDB on Linux machine and we want to capture monitoring for both Linux and OracleDB. Then select Node from the list and add 'OracleDB' in additional exporter name as shown below

List of exporters

Let us select 'OracleDB' as additional exporter name

At this step, we also need to give additional exporter url where the oracle application metrics information is captured. An example url screen is as shown.

Metrics

Adding metrics ip address

Step 7: Click Next and the next screen captures IP addresses.

Click in Finish once IP addresses are added. This concludes on how to add device credentials with Prometheus monitoring.

Step 8: You can always navigate back to view or update device credentials.