The Tibco EMS extension detects multiple EMS instances and gathers information from each one of them.
It can connect with or without SSL for more secure deployments.
You can filter in and out your queues and topics with rules.
Once it’s configured, you can easily define custom alerts to notify your Operations team of any issues, such as queues filling up.
The extension relies on the command line utility tibemsadmin to gather broker, queue and topic level information. It also creates a custom topology for all three entities, each one with its own custom screens, and links it to the automatic SmartScape topology. The extension also includes an out of the box dashboard.
Prerequisites
- Tibco EMS 8.0+ on Windows or Linux
- OneAgent version 1.253+
- Dynatrace version 1.253+
- The dtuser account must be able to execute tibemsadmin, usually installed under
TIBCO_HOME/bin
.
- A monitoring account must be created with sufficient privileges to run show commands under tibemsadmin.
- Statistics must be enabled inside EMS.
- If using SSL, you need to provide a valid certificate so the extension can connect.
Configuration
- User: Tibco account with sufficient privileges to run tibemsadmin commands.
- Password: The user password.
- Secure Connection: Select no for TCP or yes for SSL. Ensure the correct listener is enabled.
- Capture System Queues: Select yes to capture System Queues.
- Monitoring Rules: Set of rules that will filter in or out the queues or topics, based on their names.
Output
The dashboard Tibco EMS Overview will be included in the extension. From there, you can navigate to the list of all the entities created by the extension; brokers, queues and topics. Each individual entity will have its own screen to view its metrics and navigate to the related entities.
Additionally, a new section will appear in the monitored host called Tibco EMS brokers, where you can navigate to the monitored brokers of the selected host. Likewise, a new section will appear in the process group instance's screen to navigate to its related broker. Make sure to have the new screens for both enabled to view these new sections.
All metrics can also be viewed with the data explorer, they are prefixed with EMS2.
You can use the included Feature Sets to control which metrics will be monitored.
Licensing Consumption
The extension consumes DDU Units.
The amount of DDUs units depends on the number of instances, queues and topics.