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dsDash - eDirectory Health Monitor (v 2.x)

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license: 
Free (subject to disclaimer)

dsDash is a cross-platform, multi-tree, automated
eDirectory monitoring application.




Features include



  • Web interface providing "traffic
    light" information on configured trees


  • Email notifications based on
    severity


  • “cron” style
    scheduling for background monitoring jobs


  • "run now" for in between
    scheduled jobs



Parameters monitored include



  • Overall agent health


  • Partition/Replication


  • Time synchronization


  • Obituaries


  • Schema Class compare


  • Schema Attribute compare


  • Identity Manager Driver status



Requirements


nts-fuseds
(Framework to host and manage various NTS [UK Services] applications)


Getting Started



    Download dsDash-2.1.1.zip and extract
    dsDash-2.1.1.nua.


    Login to nts-fuseds Manager and Upload
    the extracted dsDash-2.1.1.nua.




    Login to nts-fuseds Manager and Deploy
    the Uploaded dsDash-2.1.1.nua. Once you have accepted the
    Disclaimer, enter your change the information as required (for
    multiple instances, Context needs to be unique)






    Once deployment is complete logout of
    nts-fuseds Manager.


    Navigate to the newly deployed dsDash.




    Login using admin/admin.




    Use the Options link to configure
    dsDash.







Tips



  • Use nts-fuseds Manager to certificates for LDAP over
    SSL




Disclaimer: As with everything else at Cool Solutions, this content is definitely not supported by Novell (so don't even think of calling Support if you try something and it blows up).

It was contributed by a community member and is published "as is." It seems to have worked for at least one person, and might work for you. But please be sure to test, test, test before you do anything drastic with it.




User Comments

samthendsgod's picture

Installation Fails on XP

Submitted by samthendsgod on 27 August 2008 - 10:30am.

I've tried several times to install this and each time it fails with this java error:

java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string: "0-b23"
at java.lang.NumberFormatException.forInputString(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Integer.parseInt(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Integer.(Unknown Source)
at com.zerog.ia.installer.util.BidiUtilImpl.handleBidiString(DashoA10*..)
at com.zerog.ia.installer.util.MnemonicString.(DashoA10*..)
at com.zerog.ia.installer.util.MnemonicString.(DashoA10*..)
at com.zerog.ia.installer.installpanels.LicenseAgrActionPanel.h(DashoA10*..)
at com.zerog.ia.installer.installpanels.LicenseAgrActionPanel.g(DashoA10*..)
at com.zerog.ia.installer.installpanels.LicenseAgrActionPanel.b(DashoA10*..)
at com.zerog.ia.api.priv.ZGInstallPanelProxy.a(DashoA10*..)
at com.zerog.ia.installer.LifeCycleManager.a(DashoA10*..)
at com.zerog.ia.installer.LifeCycleManager.d(DashoA10*..)
at com.zerog.ia.installer.LifeCycleManager.h(DashoA10*..)
at com.zerog.ia.installer.LifeCycleManager.a(DashoA10*..)
at com.zerog.ia.installer.Main.main(DashoA10*..)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
at com.zerog.lax.LAX.launch(DashoA10*..)
at com.zerog.lax.LAX.main(DashoA10*..)

I reinstalled Java (1.6.7) and restarted, still it fails the same way.

Sam

Greg's picture

Installer failed for me

Submitted by Greg (not verified) on 27 August 2008 - 1:46pm.

Tried on a couple machines (all with java 1.6.0.6)

java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string: "0-b22"
at java.lang.NumberFormatException.forInputString(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Integer.parseInt(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Integer.(Unknown Source)
at com.zerog.ia.installer.util.BidiUtilImpl.handleBidiString(DashoA10*..)
at com.zerog.ia.installer.util.MnemonicString.(DashoA10*..)
at com.zerog.ia.installer.util.MnemonicString.(DashoA10*..)
at com.zerog.ia.installer.installpanels.LicenseAgrActionPanel.h(DashoA10*..)
at com.zerog.ia.installer.installpanels.LicenseAgrActionPanel.g(DashoA10*..)
at com.zerog.ia.installer.installpanels.LicenseAgrActionPanel.b(DashoA10*..)
at com.zerog.ia.api.priv.ZGInstallPanelProxy.a(DashoA10*..)
at com.zerog.ia.installer.LifeCycleManager.a(DashoA10*..)
at com.zerog.ia.installer.LifeCycleManager.d(DashoA10*..)
at com.zerog.ia.installer.LifeCycleManager.h(DashoA10*..)
at com.zerog.ia.installer.LifeCycleManager.a(DashoA10*..)
at com.zerog.ia.installer.Main.main(DashoA10*..)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
at com.zerog.lax.LAX.launch(DashoA10*..)
at com.zerog.lax.LAX.main(DashoA10*..)

cdrew's picture

Windows Installation issues

Submitted by cdrew on 27 August 2008 - 6:17pm.

Sam, Greg

Thanks for feeding back the install errors.

The problem was with the installer and java 1.6.0.4 and later which I did not detect in my testing. I managed to duplicate the issue on my 1.6.0.5 install. I've applied the fix to the installer software and tested and this should now work. However, I'm having issue uploading the file to the Cool Solutions website. I've reported the issue and will post a comment as soon as it is available.

In the meantime, if you still have the original download you should be able to get it installed using java v1.6 (1.6.0.3 or earlier)

Thanks
Craig

Anonymous's picture

At least you can install it

Submitted by Anonymous on 27 August 2008 - 6:32pm.

I have no idea how to install this tbz file. When I open it there is a bin_ file - huh.

--Confused

jmccrea's picture

At least you can install it

Submitted by jmccrea on 19 September 2008 - 4:32am.

Not sure if you found your answer yet, if not the command below will unzip the file to a tar file.

bunzip2 dsDash_i386.bin_.tbz

dwall72's picture

Requirements to run

Submitted by dwall72 on 28 August 2008 - 11:10am.

The install worked fine, but it appears to require libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 to run, which seems odd since it is a web application. Any way around this?

Scott Hutchinson's picture

Where is it?

Submitted by Scott Hutchinson (not verified) on 28 August 2008 - 12:46pm.

> Download and install dsDash for your operating system.

Where do we go to download it?

I have searched download.novell.com for "dsDash" and found nothing.

cdrew's picture

RE: Where is it?

Submitted by cdrew on 28 August 2008 - 4:48pm.

There is a Linux i386 and Windows download as part of the CoolSolution post!!

Scott Hutchinson's picture

Thank You. I guess the

Submitted by Scott Hutchinson (not verified) on 29 August 2008 - 11:08am.

Thank You. I guess the Windows version was added recently.

Do you have one for NetWare 6.5?

cdrew's picture

RE: Do you have one for NetWare 6.5?

Submitted by cdrew on 31 August 2008 - 11:48am.

Unfortunately not. The Java (JRE) >= 1.6 precludes this.

Scott Hutchinson's picture

OK, I found and installed

Submitted by Scott Hutchinson (not verified) on 29 August 2008 - 11:24am.

OK, I found and installed the Windows Version, but I can't access it.

My Windows Firewall is OFF.
McAfee VS Enterprise 8.0i is not blocking that port.
I don't have anything else resembling a firewall installed on my PC.

but http://localhost:8180/dsDash does not work.
(even using my IP Address or my Host Name)

Help!

al_b's picture

Hi Scott,

Submitted by al_b on 29 August 2008 - 3:47pm.

Hi Scott,
Did you launched dsDash.exe file?
This file didn't started after installation automatically.

and try to use your ip address instead of localhost.
al

cdrew's picture

RE: OK, I found and installed

Submitted by cdrew on 31 August 2008 - 11:51am.

Scott,

After you installed dsDash, did you launch the dsDash.exe? Can you do this from the cmd line and let me know what feedback (if any) you get on the console?

Thanks
Craig

al_b's picture

Thank you very much! It is great tool!

Submitted by al_b on 29 August 2008 - 8:13am.

>Where do we go to download it?
Check attachment section of this post.

It is work good on XP machine, but doesn't work on SLES10sp1 x64 :o(

/usr/lib64/jvm/java-1_5_0-ibm-1.5.0_sr7/jre/bin/j9vm/libjvm.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64
I will try to fix problems with java

cdrew's picture

RE: doesn't work on SLES10sp1 x64

Submitted by cdrew on 29 August 2008 - 10:26am.

Linux x86_64 build has been added to the attachments for download now.

Craig

anonymous's picture

Installed Fined But login?

Submitted by anonymous (not verified) on 5 September 2008 - 12:10am.

HI all,

Well the installtion seemed fine, i get the dsdash webpage as designed...BUT login, what is the admin password? .... edir still greyed out..

Regard Thys

cdrew's picture

RE: Installed Fined But login?

Submitted by cdrew on 5 September 2008 - 7:27am.

Thys,

Step 4 Under "Getting Started" states how to login initially. To Enable the eDirectory authentication option, please read the "Additional Configuration Options" section. Obviously you will need to substitute the LDAP Host,Port and AdminGroup with your own settings.

Craig

cdrew's picture

dashTray for dsDash now available

Submitted by cdrew on 5 September 2008 - 4:35am.

dashTray - dsDash System Tray notifier is a Windows / Linux System Tray application to monitor and notify the user of status changes in dsDash

anonymous's picture

Not quite working, doing something wrong?

Submitted by anonymous (not verified) on 9 September 2008 - 2:55pm.

I'm running on SUSE 10 sp2 64-bit. Everything installed fine and seems to be working, except that for both of my trees the only thing that seems to read is obituaries. Everything else shows up as unkown. I'm using eDir 8.8 Sp3 and iMonitor 2.4. Any suggestions?

timschaffer@gmail.com

chongsinni's picture

how to include LDAP authentication settings?

Submitted by chongsinni on 9 September 2008 - 8:56pm.

Under "Additional Configuration Options"
...
eDirectory (LDAP) authentication enabled/disabled in preferences.properties file
## LDAP authentication settings
LDAP.Host=127.0.0.1
LDAP.Port=389
LDAP.AdminGroup = cn=dsDashAdminGroup.ou=groups.o=novell
...

Which "preference.properties" file mentioned above? Can you please explain where i could include my LDAP setting?
Nice tool!

best regards,
sinni

anonymous's picture

Unable to Launch dsDash.exe

Submitted by anonymous (not verified) on 12 September 2008 - 4:13am.

Installation was successful. But when i run dsDash.exe, I get a Java error. " JRE or JDK must be available in order to run dsDash. No JVM was found after searching the following location: C:\Sketchworks\dsdash\jre\bin\javaw.exe ; javaw.exe in your current path " There is no such folder.

OS is XP SP2, Java is intalled on my PC.

anonymous's picture

RE: Unable to Launch dsDash.exe

Submitted by anonymous (not verified) on 12 September 2008 - 8:00am.

Is java.exe in yor path? What version of java do you have installed?

Anonymous's picture

Question re capability

Submitted by Anonymous on 16 September 2008 - 9:22am.

Hello:
The discussions re this utility do not explicitly state that it can be installed on a Windows desktop and used to monitor eDir hosted on Netware 6.5 Servers.
I have been able to install the utility on XP SP3 with JRE 1.6.07 w/o errors and I can connect via the web interface.
I see the servers in my tree as blue objects but the pie chart status screen keeps showing status unknown. i.e. PInk is the only color I see

Am I missing something or is this utility not intended to monitor eDir 8.8SP2 when hosted on OES Netware 6.5 ??

cdrew's picture

RE: Question re capability

Submitted by cdrew on 16 September 2008 - 4:06pm.

Hello,

Yes dsDash is capable of monitoring eDirectory 8.8.x on OES NetWare (or any version of eDir >=8.7.3 for that matter).

Please check your tree configuration and ensure that the LDAP (I assume these are correct if you get a list of servers returned) and you iMon settings are correct for your tree. Ensure the iMon version selected matches the version you are connecting to. (again I make the assumtion this is 2.4 on OES/eDir 8.8.2 and you are using SSL on port 8030 unless you chaged these from default.)

If these settings are correct and you still have an issue. Please check the logs (particularly the error log) and let me know what entries you have. The logs can be found under the Window menu. To see the error log, click on the System Log header and choose Error Log from the pop-up.

Hope this helps

Anonymous's picture

Question re capability

Submitted by Anonymous on 18 September 2008 - 10:55am.

Hello,
We are seeing the same problem as the above user. After everything has been installed and configured all of servers status icons on the left of the screen have blue question marks. Also the graphs are displayed as unknown and all in pink. Looking over the log there are no errors to speak of. We are running edir 8.8 sp2 on windows 2k3 with iMon 2.4.
One point you made above is make sure you iMon settings are correct, is there any documentation on how iMon should be set up?

cgrogan11's picture

selecting edir at the logon screen

Submitted by cgrogan11 on 17 September 2008 - 10:13am.

I have downloaded dsDash and logged in using local, but cannot figure out how to login using eDirectory. I followed the steps outlined

"eDirectory (LDAP) authentication enabled/disabled in preferences.properties file
## LDAP authentication settings
LDAP.Host=127.0.0.1
LDAP.Port=389
LDAP.AdminGroup = cn=dsDashAdminGroup.ou=groups.o=novell", modified the preferences.properties still can't select edir. Am I missing something?

Anonymous's picture

Server status shown as blue question marks

Submitted by Anonymous on 18 September 2008 - 11:19am.

Hello,
We are seeing the same problem as the post from Anonymous on 16 September. After everything has been installed and configured all of servers status icons on the left of the screen have blue question marks. Also the graphs are displayed as unknown and all in pink. Looking over the log there are no error to speak of. We are running edir 8.8 sp2 on windows 2k3 with iMon 2.4.
One point you made above is make sure you iMon settings are correct, is there any documentation on how iMon should be set up?

Anonymous's picture

Server status if a server has no replication

Submitted by Anonymous on 19 September 2008 - 3:58am.

first of all thanks for dsDash - it like this stuff! My dsDask installation works very well on XP with java 1.6.0_6.

I would like to monitor the tree health, so I have also configured to monitor the partition/replication option during the inital setup of the tree configuration.

Each server which havn't a replica have a blue question mark as status icon (all agent information of these servers shows green status icons accept the Partition/Replication entries which have a red cross) and the overall tree status is also marked with a blue question mark.

Is there an option to avoid this problem?

Greetings,
Dirk

Anonymous's picture

blue question marks

Submitted by Anonymous on 8 October 2008 - 8:40am.

Hi,
Yep we have the same problem with the blue question marks. As we are trying to monitor three trees it makes DSDash tray fairly useless because it always displays the ? and none of the other states.
It only seems to be on servers that have eDir installed but no replicas e.g cluster members. maybe a config option to ignore unknown would be a usefull option.
apart from that it's a very useful tool and allowed us to spot errors on two trees and fix them quickly.
Mark

Anonymous's picture

blue question marks and pink charts

Submitted by Anonymous on 23 September 2008 - 6:32am.

installation was uneventful and all seems to be working fine except for one strange "feature".... the very first poll after installation showed my servers just fine. second and subsequent polls show blue question marks and i'm an unable to get a successful poll again. very odd.

Bambid's picture

I have same problem, how

Submitted by Bambid on 29 September 2008 - 1:18am.

I have same problem, how can I troubleshoot this problem ? Log shows only some info about servers, which are monitored, but no error.

Thanks

casolver's picture

Same results as the last two posts

Submitted by casolver on 1 October 2008 - 10:39am.

I have Blue question marks and no errors.

Anonymous's picture

Error Logs

Submitted by Anonymous on 1 October 2008 - 6:27pm.

Have you checked the ERROR log....to see it, open the Logs window, single click on the System Log header and select Error Log. Does it contain any entries?

anonymous's picture

checked error log

Submitted by anonymous (not verified) on 6 October 2008 - 8:57am.

no errors at all, just job schedules from Quartz Manager something.

anonymous's picture

RE: checked error log

Submitted by anonymous (not verified) on 6 October 2008 - 1:13pm.

Well, which is it? Are there entries in the error.log or are the quartz scheduler messages in the System.log? If it is the latter, you have a configuration problem and its not a dsDash issue. Please cut 'n paste the messages in the logs so we can see which it is!

anonymous's picture

Secure LDAP connection

Submitted by anonymous (not verified) on 9 October 2008 - 3:32am.

I have one tree that doesn't enforce secure connections and monitoring seems to work for it
The normal case is to have to make secure connections and my attempts to do that give LDAP Client failure error messages. Are there some unstated additional requirements to make successful connections to a NetWare server from an XP workstation under these circumstances? If I configure non-secure connections I get Confidentiality Required error messages, which is what I'd expect.

chris hailey

Anonymous's picture

Novell error on startup

Submitted by Anonymous on 21 October 2008 - 4:54pm.

I may be in the wrong forum for this so let me know if so. I receive an error when the MTA starts up that reads File or directory is missing (DF10)
d:\...\wphost.db

Also, when I click Console One to open I receive the blue screen indicating a fatal error

I just inherited this server from a new client. It is running Novell 6.5.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Anonymous's picture

RE: * Novell error on startup

Submitted by Anonymous on 22 October 2008 - 7:21am.

"I may be in the wrong forum for this so let me know if so" .....Indeed it is! You may have better success posting this on GroupWise forums

Anonymous's picture

mixed up domain and po

Submitted by Anonymous on 22 October 2008 - 7:58am.

Hi,
a MTA always looks for a wpdomain.db whereas a postoffice looks for a wphost.db.
So you must have swapped your paths here.
C1 always wants to connect to the wpdomain, which is in the domain directory.

callad's picture

Getting the following error in log "YxpYc3co"

Submitted by callad on 23 December 2008 - 12:53pm.

I have dsDash running and everything appears to be configured right but I only see a blue question mark beside my tree name. The Error log has the following error message.

"YxpYc3co"

This is not a very detailed error message.

I have tested the LDAP credentials and they are working. (No LDAP errors in the dsDash log).
I have confirmed that I selected the correct version of iMonitor (2.3.1)
and I have been able to connect directly to iMonitor on the servers and it works fine.

Any help?
Thanks,
Dwayne

jtgn's picture

dsdash web layout

Submitted by jtgn on 9 February 2009 - 9:17pm.

we have installed dsdash but when monitoring our dirxml drivers we need to change the font size on the web page to display all the drivers (over 25). This means we cannot determine which driver may have an issue as the font is too small to read.

Is it possible to change the dsdash layout so that we move the display of the drivers to a more suitable location.

Thanks
John

Tilman_R's picture

Blue question marks

Submitted by Tilman_R on 11 February 2009 - 5:48am.

Maybe you messed up the DN format?`

The manuel describes a dot-format, not a (LDAP) comma-format.
Try that.

jkinney's picture

dsDash LDAP connect Errors

Submitted by jkinney on 16 February 2009 - 6:56am.

I have all my servers configured for LDAPS connections as well as iMonitoring requiring SSL. Is there some procedure for installing the SSL cert in a keystore somewhere?? I'm guessing my errors are related to the inability to connect due to SSL. Any help is appreciated!!

JK

Tilman_R's picture

Support?

Submitted by Tilman_R on 17 February 2009 - 8:56am.

I went fine for some days, today I got following error message:

HTTP ERROR: 500
An entry point named 'default' does not exist.
RequestURI=/dsDash

Powered by Jetty://

Btw: in my Testenvironment (with OES2 and Win Servers) everthing is fine. In productive environment, some servers are fine, some are blue-questionsmarks and some are not even listed in the overview. And I do not see any common criteria. Strange.

brianklinger's picture

updated installation instructions or ?

Submitted by brianklinger on 27 April 2009 - 10:02am.

I've been trying to install on Windows and Linux with limited success. I'd really like to run this for monitoring of my eDirectory. Would anyone have some tips?

Windows - I'm receiving the blur question marks on my tree and server objects. The LDAP appears to be set up but I'm guessing it's not logging into the iMonitor like it should? Error log says - DataCollector: null
server config - NWCONFIG is showing the iMontior as 2.3.0, Netware 6.5sp6, default ports

Linux - using openSUSE 11.1, NC for linux is installed, aplied various patches. I can install a different version if that helps. I'm more curious about dependencies than anything else for Linux. I'm a beginnner Linux person so it's taking longer to try the app on this OS.

Thanks

alang's picture

System Log: Treejob: oestree skipping job

Submitted by alang on 15 June 2009 - 9:16am.

I would love to use this tool, but I have no success getting it to work in my environment. I tried to run it from OES2SP1 Linux, SLED10SP2, and from my local Windows XP. Installation etc works fine, I can login to the web page, configure my trees no problem. Unfortunately on none of my trees I get any results. There are no errors in the error.log, and the system.log only shows me the message: "Treejob: OESTREE skipping job". If I double click on any of my configured trees it says "Last Update: null". I tried ports 389 and 636 for ldap, otherwise followed instructions. Tried both NetWare 6.5SP8 and OES2SP1 servers as target with edir 8.8.4 and iManager 2.4. Tried ip addresses and dns names. I'm using full distinguished names in edir format (dot delimited). What am I missing?
Thanks for any help.

sumen's picture

Still unable to login

Submitted by sumen on 7 July 2009 - 11:27am.

Hi
can anybody tell me where i can find preferences.properties file, im still unable to login. Please help i really like the tool but unable to use it. I get the dsdash logon screen but cant login. Please HELP

scouture2001's picture

Where can we download this utility???

Submitted by scouture2001 on 22 April 2010 - 6:01am.

Can't find any attachment, link or anything pointing me where do we download this interesting stuff...

cdrew's picture

Version 2.1.1 available for

Submitted by cdrew on 9 June 2010 - 6:15am.

Version 2.1.1 available for download from this page

cdrew's picture

Version 2.1.1 Now out

Submitted by cdrew on 8 June 2010 - 2:29pm.

Version 2.1.1 Now out

jsnow's picture

Why won't this connect to my tree

Submitted by jsnow on 27 February 2012 - 10:35am.

I've installed and configured this on a SLES11SP1/eDir 8.8.6 x86_64 server. Everything went smoothly except for when it tries to authenticate to my tree, it just sits there with a candy striped progress bar and "connecting" below it. I've look through the log files and don't see any errors. Thoughts/ideas/suggestions? Thanks!

jkinney's picture

Can't show details of tree

Submitted by jkinney on 3 May 2012 - 1:28am.

I got the install to work and I can get in and configure a tree, however when I click on one of the configured trees, it doesn't expand the selection to show details. This was done on SLES11sp2, however when I tested it on a Windows 7 machine it seems to work fine. Are there other dependencies/configurations required for SLES11??

cdrew's picture

RE: Can't show details of tree

Submitted by cdrew on 4 May 2012 - 4:18am.

There are no specific platform/OS dependencies. Provided you have met the Java & Tomcat dependencies it should work equally on either Windows or Linux.

You say you have configured the Tree? Have you enabled at least 1 agent? Has the tree run a check? You will only be able to see Tree details in the main section if you have done the above and a Job is not currently running.

jkinney's picture

RE: Can't show details of tree

Submitted by jkinney on 4 May 2012 - 8:58am.

I did configure one agent but it had a blue clock looking shape next to the tree name. Is that indicative that the job was running? If so, then this may not be an issue and I'll have to wait and see what happens.

Thanks!!

JK

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