Exporting threshold settings in SunMC

Question

1. Is there any way to export out the list of current thresholds for all monitored servers under SunMC via command-line?
2. Closely related, is there any way to have an audit trail if any changes are made to the threshold settings?
Thanks.

Answer 1

1. Is there any way to export out the list of current
thresholds for all monitored servers under SunMC via
command-line?You mean with SunMC's built-in es-cli? Not easily. It would be a fair bit of work trying to wrap es-cli in bash/Perl to get it to work. It would be easier to do something like scp the base-modules-d.dat file from every Agent and then scp the corresponding .dat files listed inside. That would give you all config and thresholds in ASCII for every system.
You could also use a Configuration Task within the Console to copy those files to the Server. It could also be scheduled.
Turning those dat files into something more easily readable would then be an exercise in scripting if you want it in your own format (i.e. HTML).
For just detecting a change, "diff" would do fine.
2. Closely related, is there any way to have an audit
trail if any changes are made to the threshold
settings?Other than when a module is loaded security info for the person who changes something they're allowed to is not stored anywhere. You may be able to parse server.log on the SunMC Server and try to figure out what went on, but there's noting in the GUI that will show that kind of audit trail.
Using something like the File Watcher module against base-modules-d.dat would show what changes were made over time (and optionally alarm on them) for module load/unload or the changing of load params. The same module pointed to a module .dat file would also pick up threshold changes.
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