Geneos Plugin Help

Gateway-sql Plugin FAQs

• How do I use multiple data sources in gateway SQL
• Why does gateway-sql not return column data?
• How to make the "order by" statement work in the gateway-sql plugin?
• How to filter out null values in gateway sql?
• How to group multiple rows of data on a dataview to make it easier sending email alerts or copying to create reports?
• Gateway SQL - Using XPath Sources

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FKM Plugin FAQs

• How can I avoid seing unavailable files when using a generic FKM
• FKM "Default Ignore File name" does not work if the content type of the file is not text
• Will there will be any performance issue if an FKM sampler look for a pattern on a large txt/log file(e.g. > 2GB)?
• How Do I Set Multiline Ignore Key on FKM?
• How can I ignore FKM triggers at a specific time period?
• What can I do if my regex does not detect a keyword in FKM as I expect?

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SQL Toolkit Plugin FAQs

• How to solve the Sybase client error "cs_ctx_alloc -> CS_FAIL"
• How to configure the SQL-Toolkit plugin to connect to an Oracle database
• How to resolve error: Fail - libintl.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory?
• What are the SQL server driver/libraries required for SQL-toolkit on UNIX environment?
• What does the message "ORA-12154: TNS:could not resolve the connect identifier specified" mean when tries to connect to Oracle DB?
• ORA errors encountered in SQL-Toolkit

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Toolkit Plugin FAQs

• How do I monitor the ulimit command for resources on Linux shell?
• How can I monitor Citrix?
• What is the Toolkit plugin's behavior starting Netprobe GA3.0.22
• How to monitor Windows Scheduled Tasks in Geneos
• How do I monitor a PowerShell script on Windows with the Toolkit plugin?
• Can we put the variable into the toolkit plugin sampler script field?

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MQ Plugin FAQs

• What does the entry "FAIL: Unable to initialise MQ libraries." in the netprobe log file indicate?
• Does MQ-QINFO plugin actually READ messages on the queue?
• What permission does MQ-Qinfo requires to fetch queue details?
• Why is the status column of the MQ Channel sampler empty?
• When a MQ-queue plug is setup, why the oldestMsgAge was not displayed eventhough there is a message stuck in the queue?
• Can A Single Netprobe Monitor Multipe MQ Managers?

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Processes Plugin FAQs

• RHEL 7+ and The Processes Plug-in Isn't Finding My Process
• Cannot find my process even though it is correctly configured in the setup
• What is the maximum number of characters for process descriptor that Geneos Processes Plugin will match with?
• How I can configure geneos to monitor a process with a specific account?
• How do I monitor all instances of a process that starts up with different arguments or monitor each instance count separately?
• How do I get the workingSet of a process directly from OS and compare its value against processes plugin.

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JMX Plugin FAQs

• JMX-ThreadInfo plugin Error: "Access denied! Invalid access level for requested MBeanServer operation"
• How to monitor JBoss using JMX
• When does the Netprobe connect to the JMX enabled Java application
• How to solve the error ERROR: JVMManager Failed to create LaunchPad class. Please make sure geneos-plugins.jar exist and in the class path
• How do I display an Mbean object name in JMX sampler?
• Part 1: How do I configure the JMX-Server Plugin in Linux using a 32 bit Netprobe and JVM?

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FTM Plugin FAQs

• How to use FTM to monitor a file whose name contains a space?
• What is the expected behavior of FTM when an active period is defined?
• How to use FTM to check file existence on first Xday of every month?
• Using FTM's new date functions
• How to remove the leading zero in the day of the month date format?
• How to monitor files in weekdays only using FTM?

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Network Plugin FAQs

• Can I disable showing virtual network interface in network plugin?
• Why is my Network plugin not displaying all Windows virtual IPs?
• How is percentRecvErrors computed?
• Why does the Netprobe log show repeating errors like "Cannot get device settings: Invalid argument"?
• How is the "cardSpeed" value derived in the Network plugin (Linux OS)?

Extractor Plugin FAQs

• How to extract directly from JSON files
• How do I monitor a local file in HTML/XML format on the Netprobe using the Extractor plugin?
• How to use Extractor to monitor webpage content?
• Are there any useful functions for extractor
• How to parse JSON output from a website using the Extractor plugin?

Hardware Plugin FAQs

• Linux Memory Utilisation: Hardware sampler
• What commands do CPU utilization and PercentMemory use(Hardware plugin) from AIX?
• What does 'timeDifference' mean and how is it calculated in the hardware sampler?
• How is the swap size calculated (utility/cmd) in the hardware plug-in?
• Why does the cpuUtilisation value reported in Hardware plugin appears to be high on Windows Netprobes?

FIX-Analyser FAQs

• FIX Analyser 2 Upgrade Path
• How can I force the Fix Analyser 2 plugin to ignore specific messages?
• Why is my fix-analyser2 sampler stuck in Pending status?
• What is the difference between the original FIX-analyser plugin and the FIX-analyser2 plugin?

E4JMS Plugin FAQs

• How do I configure the E4JMS plugin for Tibco EMS setup
• How are the E4JMS Queues and Topics information derived?

Disk Plugin FAQs

• Disk Plugin Errors In Log File "cpuacct" and "net_prio"
• How does the Disk Plugin calculate totalSpace of the partition in Linux
• What does the message "Fail - Partition blocked" mean in the Disk plugin?
• What command is used by the DISK plugin to figure out available inodes on Solaris?

X-plugins FAQs

• How Do I Resolve The Error Message "Failed - X-plugin must be run either as root or with CAP_NET_RAW capability set."?
• Why do I get "unreachable" connection status from X-Ping plugin?
• How Does X-Multicast Computes dataRecvRate and MsgRecvRate Values?
• How Do I Get The Windows NIC Device Name Used By Netprobe?

CPU Plugin FAQs

• What does the Load Average in the CPU plugin mean?
• CPU plugin under the hood: Windows
• CPU plugin under the hood: Solaris
• CPU plugin under the hood: Linux

API Plugin FAQs

• How do I use Node.js with the API plugin?
• I am using the API plugin, most functions work fine except receiving the error "View method 'updateTableRow' does not exist". How do I fix this?
• Is it possible to have 'Sample Now' for API plug-in?
• How can I enable the API plugin debug?
• How do I use Python with the API plugin?

Web-Mon Plugin FAQs

• How to fix HttpInterface Failed to load libcurl error from Web-Mon plugin?
• How can I use the web-mon plugin to monitor a web page with basic authentication?
• How to get an RSS feed in to Geneos

RMC interface Plugin FAQs

• What is a timing record and why is it used?
• Q: Why didn't my RMC sampler work when we upgraded to the latest version of Netprobe?
• RMC (Reuters Management Class) - Info and troubleshooting
• Q: How do I run the RMC replayer?

Trapmon FAQs

• How can I test the trapmon plugin?
• How to stop messages writing to standard out when configuring Trapmon plugin
• How do I bring up configuration fields (e.g. MIB Files) for Trapmon plugin in Gateway Setup Editor?

State Tracker Plugin FAQs

• In State Tracker Plug-in, can I use multiple IDs in Dynamic Tracker with Templates?
• What is the behaviour of the State tracker when only the content of the file is being overwritten?
• Can I monitor lines with unique IDs using State Tracker?
• How Do I Address A Flashing/Flickering Effect On My State Tracker?

Database FAQs

• Do I need to have Oracle installed at the server that hosts the netprobe in order to use the Oracle Plug-In?
• How do I assign an encrypted password in Oracle plug-in?

DeviceIO Plugin FAQs

• What does "EMF2 PlugIn DEVICEIO not found" mean on Windows Netprobe logs
• Where does the Device-IO Plugin extract its data
• Device-IO plugin - How to compute the cpuUtilisation?

WMI Plugin FAQs

• List users on a Windows Host
• How do I check the version attributes of deployed files?

API-Streams Plugin FAQs

• How do I set up Gissing Contex monitoring

MDM Plugin FAQs

• How to resolve the "ERROR: Consolidated-Feed-LLP No valid bridge for middleware: 'lbm' " error in MDM nyxt adapter?

TIB-RV Plugin FAQs

• What advisory messages does the TIB-RV plug-in listen to on the RV transport?

MIB Monitor FAQs

• Q: What is the Query Timeout setting in the MIB Monitor plugin?

TCP-Links Plugin FAQs

• How to create a regular expression for the remote or local port that references a variable?

TOP Plugin FAQs

• Why is TOP Plugin Showing Dead Processes

Informix Plugin FAQs

• How to solve the Informix plugin error: "Script <XXX> produced invalid result"?

EUEM Plugin FAQs

• How do i set up EUEM?