vFabric Gemfire 7 Monitoring Plugin (Hyperic)

Hyperic plug-in for vFabric Gemfire, manages GemFire Distributed System (DS) and the servers and services it comprises. Recenbtly a new version was released which supports GemFire 7. You can obtain it from the VMware Sulution Exchange link below.

https://solutionexchange.vmware.com/store/products/vfabric-gemfire-monitoring-plugin-hyperic

To set GemFire 7 monitoring on Hyperic 50 the steps are as follows

• Download plugin from link above
• If plugin name contains version such as vfgf-plugin-1.0.M1.jar, rename to vfgf-plugin.jar.
• Log in to HQ UI
• Click on Administration
• Click on Plugin Manager
• Click Add/Update Plugins
• Select vfgf-plugin.jar from your filesystem
• Click Ok
• Wait for plugin sync to complete (usually not more than a minute or two)

• Click on Resources
• Click on the Tools menu
• Click on New Platform
• Enter a name for this platform such as "Gemfire 7.0" this name must be unique in HQ Inventory
• Optionally enter Description and Location
• From Platform Type drop down select either "vFabric Gemfire Distributed System 7.x"
• Choose the HQ agent you wish to monitor gemfire from in the Agent Connection drop down. (Note: If the HQ agent will be monitoring GF remotely be sure firewall allows the selected HQ agent to connect to the gemfire agent/locators)
• Enter the IP Address of the GemFire system into IP Address
• Enter a unique name to use in the Fully Qualified Domain Name box. 
• Once done it should look as follows once servers have been picked up and discovered.

• Click OK - This will add the platform to inventory. It still needs to be configured 

• Click on Edit under Configuration Properties under the Inventory tab of the new platform you added
• Enter in the details for the locator(s) and their ports. If there are multiple locators then separate then by a comma.

Finally when done you can save charts to the main dashboard as required.