Setting up and configuring BCO EE
(BPA) Linux Console
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love BCO EE
Dima Seliverstov
3/3/2014
Steps
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Installing and configuring the database
Installing the console
Configuring the console
Using the console
Monitoring the console
Installing and configuring the database
• Pick the latest database you can use
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https://docs.bmc.com/docs/display/public/bcmco95/Oracle+Populate+support
• Install the database
– Same machine as console or another machine
• Configure tablespaces
– Command
• sqlplus / as sysdba
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CREATE TABLESPACE visdb DATAFILE '/<location>/<instance>/visdb01.dbf' SIZE 8G;
(ALTER TABLESPACE visdb ADD DATAFILE /<location>/<instance>/visdb01.dbf’ SIZE 8G;) to increase
• Configure the users to use tablespace
– Command
• sqlplus / as sysdba
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CREATE USER<user> IDENTIFIED BY <password> DEFAULT TABLESPACE visdb;
GRANT CONNECT <user>; GRANT RESOURCE <user>;
• Check to see if your database is up and running via Oracle Developer
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http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/developer-tools/sql-developer/downloads/index.html
Installing the console
• Pick the latest hardware and software NOT the minimum versions
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https://docs.bmc.com/docs/display/public/bcmco95/Minimum+system+requirements+by+component
• Use Silent Install
* (Use Silent Install because X Windows GUI is slow and error messages are few)
– See silent directory for file contents and instructions
• Run as root, but configure the product user to be someone other then root
• Double check everything you enter, the script or the GUI have limited error
messages
• Make sure best1_9.5.00 or 9.0.00 links are created in /usr/adm
• Make sure you have cron configured and running
– Run $BEST1_HOME/bgs/scripts/checkCron.pl
• If cron is not running start cron on Linux via “/etc/init.d/crond start” as root
Configuring the console
• Use AutoNodeDiscovery for agents and proxy
(Windows, Vmware)
• Use Web Based console General Manager
Configuring the console: Why use
AutoNodeDiscovery?
• AutoNodeDiscovery
– Automatic manager run creation
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Scalability based on BMC best practices
Nightly update and discovery
Reasonable defaults provided
Separation by functionality or platform
Configuring the console: What is
AutoNodeDiscovery?
– Command line only tool
– Proxy Configuration
• Supports
– VMware,
– Windows
• User Specifies
– Proxy Host
– Domain
– Agent Configuration
• Control node lists using a simple csv file
Configuring the console: How to use
Proxy AutoNodeDiscovery?
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Command
– AutoNodeDiscovery –C –v <ProxyHostName> -d <Domain Name> -u <UDR Data Repository> -s
<Manager Script Name>
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Accepting all other defaults not specified on the command line is an excellent
starting point
Manager Script Name
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Should contain the platform and domain description and function
Should not contain any spaces
Should not be very (long 20 characters max)
Example:
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VCenterBCMDev
UDR Data Repository should contain the name of the manager run
– Easy to identify nodes in a run
– Easy to transfer nodes in a run to another console for workload or modeling
– Increased performance
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each run is not looking at nodes from another run
– Example: $BEST1_HOME/local/collect/<manager Script Name>
Configuring the console: How to use
Agent AutoNodeDiscovery?
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Command
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AutoNodeDiscovery –C –a <Agent List Location> -u <UDR Data Repository> -s <Manager Script Name>
Accepting all other defaults not specified on the command line is an excellent starting point
Manager Script Name
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Should contain the platform and domain description and function
Should not contain any spaces
Should not be very (long 20 characters max)
Example:
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Agent List Location
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Should correspond to the manager script name
Should be placed outside of the BEST1_HOME, so we can migrate the runs to another release
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AIX_Dev,Windows_Dev,Solaris_LDOM_Dev
Example :/data1/AIX_Dev.csv
Information can be easily imported and updated as needed into the Agent List Location
UDR Data Repository should contain the name of the manager run
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Easy to identify nodes in a run
Easy to transfer nodes in a run to another console for workload or modeling
Increased performance
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Example: $BEST1_HOME/local/collect/<manager Script Name>
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each run is not looking at nodes from another run
Configuring the console: Why
use Web Based
General Manager?
• Native X Window console lacks functionality
of the web console
– No recovery
– No health dashboard
– No ability to start or stop multiple runs
• Native X Window console is slow over the
network
Configuring the console: What is Web
Based General Manager ?
• General Manager is part of BCO Console or
BCO EE Perceiver
• Web Based tool to manage multiple BPA
consoles from a single web page
• Health Dashboard
• Recovery
• Log Viewer
Configuring the console: How to use Web
Based General Manager?
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Run AutoNodeDiscovery for a single run.
– This will create a manager run
– *An alternative is to create a new run and change the parameters to
make them default.
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Modify the parameters of the manager run to be the future
default of all your runs
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All the future created scripts will have the desired default
parameters.
Use the best practices specified in
– https://docs.bmc.com/docs/display/public/bcmco90/Best%20practices%20when%20usi
ng%20Manager
– https://kb.bmc.com/render/KCSRenderController?type=cssolutionint&id=SLN000000214
439&searchid=1393861895031
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Run AutoNodeDiscoveryfor all the other runs
Schedule the runs
Configuring the console: How to use
Web Based
General Manager?
• Add Console
Configuring the console: How to use Web
Based General Manager? Configuring
Default Values
Double
Click
Configuring the console: How to use Web
Based General Manager? Configuring
Default Values
Configuring the console: How to use Web
Based General Manager? Configuring
Default Values
Set desired Begin Time
Configuring the console: How to use Web
Based General Manager? Configuring
Default Values
Enable Cut Disk Options
Configuring the console: How to use Web
Based General Manager? Configuring
Default Values
Enable Oracle Population
Configuring the console: How to use Web
Based General Manager? Configuring
Default Values
Visualizer Interval and
Analyze Reports
Configuring the console: How to use Web
Based General Manager? Configuring
Default Values
Enable
Scheduling
Options
Configuring the console: How to use Web
Based General Manager? Configuring
Default Values
Disable OSR
Configuring the console: How to use Web
Based General Manager? Configuring
Default Values
Save the Manager Run
Configuring the console: How to use Web
Based General Manager? Configuring
Default Values
Save Desired Setting as Default
Configuring the console: How to use Web
Based General Manager?
Scheduling the runs
Multiple Runs
can be
Selected and
Scheduled
Using the console
• General Manager Recovery
• Perceiver
• Building Workloads using the Windows
Console using Analyze
Using the console: General Manager
Recovery
• For additional details see KA329791
https://kb.bmc.com/infocenter/index?page=content&id=KA329791&actp=search&viewlocale=en_US&searchid=1393887760642
Using the console: Perceiver
• You can view the data populated to the
database using Perceiver
– Configure a Data Source
– Configure a Group
– View the data
Using the console : Perceiver Configure a Data
Source
Using the console : Perceiver Configure a Group
Using the console : Perceiver View the data
Using the console: Building Workloads
using the Windows Console using
Analyze
• UNIX Console can be used for building workloads.
• Windows Console is a newer and more user
friendly
– UDR data should be transferred from UNIX to
Windows
– Workloads can be generated and downloaded from
UNIX to Windows console
– Workloads are platform independent
• It does not matter which console (UNIX or Windows) builds
them
Using the console: Building Workloads
using the Windows Console using
Analyze
– UDR data transfer from UNIX to Windows
Using the console: Building Workloads
using the Windows Console using
Analyze
– Workloads can be generated and downloaded
from UNIX to Windows console.
– Workloads are platform independent
• A free graphical tool WinScp(winscp.net) is very useful
for data transfer
Monitoring the console
• Use GeneralManagerLite scripts
• Create an e-mail action script (outside the
product) to monitor daily console operation
and differences
Monitoring the console:
GeneralManagerLite scripts
• Command:
– $BEST1_HOME/bgs/scripts/BCO_BPAStatusAndRecoveryManager.pl
• For the pure BCO EE use case the only input
required is the console name
• For a BCO EE /BCO integration the database
information is required
• Both text and plots are generated
Monitoring the console:
GeneralManagerLite Output
Monitoring the console: e-mail action
script
• Quick daily assessment tool (10 second)
• E-mail client based (mutt)
• Daily e-mail message
– differences between today and yesterday
– File system utilization
• When problems occur root cause can be obtained
via e-mail contents
• Script attached to the notes
• If a script is found to be useful, a better
integration with BCO EE will be provided
Monitoring the console: e-mail action
script output
Configuration and change since yesterday
Date = 2014/03/03 : 2014/03/02
Number of Configured BPA Nodes = 74 : 74 : change 0
Number of Collected BPA Nodes = 65 : 57 : change 8
Number of Transfered BPA Nodes = 62 : 55 : change 7
Number of Processed BPA Nodes = 58 : 52 : change 6
Number of BCO ETLid BPA Nodes = 0 : 0 : change 0
----------------------Details-------------------------------------File system disk space usage for location of status file =
/usr/adm/best1_9.5.00/local/manager/status/General
ManagerLite/BCO_BPAWebReport/BCO_BPAStatusCoun
t.csv
Filesystem
1K-blocks Used Available Use%
Mounted on
/dev/mapper/vg00-datalv
82569904 29847852 48527748 39%
/data1
Questions?