Alphabetical Probe Articles
A quick reference guide to help you identify the monitoring capabilities of a probe.
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The following table is a quick reference guide to help you identify the monitoring capabilities of a particular probe. Be aware that some probe versions are only supported in Admin Console (AC) or Infrastructure Manager (IM).
- To see a list of probes that can be configured using the Monitoring Configuration Service (MCS) feature in USM, see the mon_config_service (Monitoring Configuration Service) Release Notes. For more information about using MCS, see the Monitoring Configuration Service article on the DX UIM site.
- To view older versions of a probe guide, see the Archived Bookshelves and PDFs.
- Note on the significance of "N/A" and "None" in designating core and non-core probes, not in packages but available for download.
Probe ID | Name | Description | Functional Area | Remote/Local | Target Systems | Supported CA UIM Versions | Configuration Interface |
ace - no longer supported | Automatic Configuration Engine | Apply monitoring configurations to monitoring components within the DX UIM system. | None | N/A | N/A | CA UIM 8.0 and later | AC |
Active Directory Response Monitoring | Monitors the availability of the Active Directory. | Directory and Email server | Local (agent-based) / Remote (agentless) | CA UIM 8.0 and later | |||
Active Directory Server Monitoring | Monitors selected counters on the Windows Active Directory. These counters measure the availability and response time for the active directory server. | Application Delivery Analysis and Inventory | Local (agent-based) | Windows Server 2008
Windows Server 2008 R2
Windows Server 2012
Windows Server 2012 R2 | CA UIM 8.0 and later | ||
ADA Inventory | The integration point between CA Application Delivery Analysis (CA ADA) and DX Unified Infrastructure Management (DX UIM): allows views of application response data in context for servers inside of the Unified Management Portal (UMP). | None | CA UIM 8.4 and later | ||||
aggregate_alarm | Aggregate Alarm | Configures expressions that includes one or more QoS metrics. | None | CA UIM 8.31 and later | AC | ||
aggregate_enrichment | Aggregate Enrichment | As a pre-processor probe for the nas probe, alarm_enrichment attaches itself to a permanent queue and receives alarm messages distributed by the hub. | None | See nas | |||
CA APM Bridge | Sends inventory topology data from DX UIM probes to your CA APM database. | Gateway | CA UIM 8.5.1 or later | ||||
Application Performance Management Gateway | Sends QoS messages from DX Unified Infrastructure Management probes to the CA Application Performance Management (APM) database. | None | Remote | The APM agent is deployed in the appliance where UIM is installed. The Agent acts as an interface between APM and UIM | CA PM Enterprise Manager 10.1 and 10.2 AND CA UIM 8.1 or later | ||
applogic_mon - no longer supported | AppLogic Application Monitoring | Monitors AppLogic Applications using the AppLogic MON Appliance APIs. The probe performs all discovery, monitoring, and data collection tasks on one or more MON Appliance targets. | Virtualization | N/A | |||
applogic_ws - no longer supported | AppLogic Monitoring Using WS_API | Monitors AppLogic Platform Grids using the AppLogic WS_API Appliance interface. The probe performs all discovery, monitoring and data collection tasks on one or more AppLogic Grid targets. | Virtualization | N/A | |||
arcserv_d2d - no longer supported | ARCserv D2D | Sends CA ARCserve D2D alerts and backup job status to DX UIM, where you can view the alerts within the CA UIM Unified Management Portal (UMP). You can also run CA ARCserve D2D commands such as full backup, incremental backup, and verify backup using the CA UIM Probe utility. | Gateway | N/A | |||
arcserv_rha - no longer supported | ARCserv RHA | Sends RHA events to DX UIM. Events appear as alerts within the CA UIM Unified Management Portal (UMP). | Gateway | N/A | |||
assetmgmt - no longer supported | Asset Management | Infrastructure | N/A | ||||
Automated Deployment Engine | A multi-threaded java-based probe that handles package and probe deployment in Admin Console; it also can deploy robots and probes using an XML file. | None | Nimsoft Monitor Server 7.6 and CA UIM 8.0 or later | ||||
CA App Experience Analytics Gateway | Probe integrates Spectrum Alarms and inventory data from DX UIM to CA App Experience Analytics using Jarvis API | Gateway | CA Spectrum: 10.2.1 CA App Experience Analytics: 16.4.1+Patch spectrumgtw: 8.60 | CA UIM 8.51 and later | |||
AXA Log Gateway | Probe will integrate Spectrum/ DX UIM Alarms and inventory data to AXA using Jarvis API | Gateway | Remote (agentless) | Spectrum:10.2.0+Patch SDgtw 8.6.1 AXA:16.4.1+Patch | CA UIM 8.51 and later | AC | |
Baseline Engine | Follows QoS messages on the message bus, samples this data, and calculates baselines (normalized QoS reference levels). | None | CA UIM 8.0 and later | ||||
CA Business Intelligence - External | A gateway for a pre-existing CA Business Intelligence JasperReports Server (CABI Server) instance. | None | |||||
Cassandra Monitoring | Monitors the health and performance of available services over an AWS cloud. The probe allows you to monitor your AWS user account and retrieves all the service data from AWS CloudWatch. | Database | Local/Remote (agentless) | Apache Cassandra version 2.1.x, or DataStax Cassandra Community Edition version 2.1.3 | Nimsoft Monitor Server 7.6 and CA UIM 8.0 or later | ||
cisco_monitor - no longer supported | Cisco SNMP Device Monitoring | Monitors critical Cisco SNMP objects by using SNMP. | Network | Remote (agentless) | Nimsoft Monitor Server 7.6 and CA UIM 8.0 or later | ||
cisco_nxos - no longer supported | Cisco NX-OS Monitoring | Monitors Cisco NX/MDS devices. | Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) | Remote (agentless) | Nimsoft Monitor Server 5.1.1 or later | ||
cisco_qos - no longer supported | Cisco Class-Based QoS Statistics Monitoring | Monitors Cisco devices supporting the Cisco Class-Based QoS MIB (cbQoS) by using SNMPv1/2c/3. | Network | Remote (agentless) | Nimsoft Monitor Server 7.6 and CA UIM 8.0 or later | ||
Cisco Unified Communications Manager Monitoring | Manages the health and performance of your Call Manager systems and services. The cisco_ucm probe is able to monitor all performance counters and services (checkpoints) available on defined agents running the Cisco Unified CallManager. | Applications | Remote (agentless) | CA UIM 8.0 or later | |||
Cisco UCS Monitoring | Remotely monitors Cisco UCS chassis series server blade systems. Monitoring availability metrics in terms of server blades present and their status and environmental metrics in terms of temperature, power, current of various parts of the UCS chassis. | Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) | Remote (agentless) | Cisco Unified Computing System Manager (Cisco UCSM) v1.4 and later | Nimsoft Monitor Server 5.1.1 or later and CA UIM 8.0 or later | ||
Cloudstack | Automates all common monitoring and data collection tasks for the Citrix Cloud Platform Powered by Apache CloudStack (Citrix Cloud Platform and Apache CloudStack). | Cloud/SaaS | Remote (agentless) | Nimsoft Monitor Server 5.1.1 or later and CA UIM 8.0 or later | |||
SLM Database Gateway | Provides access to data residing in a DX UIM SLM database. The cmdbgtw probe is capable of exporting data from any table or set of tables. Data can be exported in either XML or CSV interchange formats. Exported data is written to files in a user-chosen location. | Gateway | (initial release of probe: January 2014) | ||||
Controller | Schedules, starts, and stops probes; maintaisn contact with parent hubs and handles DX UIM operations, including hub state, name-lookup services, and licenses; responds to directives in the robot.cfg and the controller.cfg files; responds to commands issued over the configured controller port. | N/A | Nimsoft Monitor Server 7.1 or later and CA UIM 8.0 or later | ||||
dap - no longer supported | Data Access and Collection | Service | N/A | ||||
dashboard_engine - no longer supported | Dashboard Engine | Service | N/A | ||||
dashboard_server - no longer supported | Dashboard Server | Infrastructure | N/A | ||||
Data Engine | Manages and maintains data collected from monitoring probes that emit Quality of Service (QoS) data. | None | CA UIM 8.0 or later | ||||
DHCP Server Response Monitoring | Monitors the DHCPDISCOVER response for one or more Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) servers. | None | Nimsoft Monitor Server 5.1.1 or later and CA UIM 8.0 or later | ||||
Discovery Agent | Scans the IT network, pinging and querying devices according to subnet masks/ranges, credential profiles, and selected profiles. | None | Initial release May 2012 | AC; none | |||
Discovery Server | Configures discovery agents and collects status information from them; collects information about the DX UIM Server infrastructure: hubs, robots, probes, packages, monitored systems or devices, monitored subsystems or items and monitored metrics; collects device data from probes that publish discovery information; applies correlation rules to associate new device records, where appropriate, with any already-existing master device records. | Service | Nimsoft Monitor Server 5.21 and CA UIM 8.0 or later | AC; none | |||
DNS Response Monitoring | Queries Domain Name Servers and monitors their response times. It is possible to query the DNS for A records (normal hostnames), MX records (mail servers) and NS records (name servers). | Response Time Monitoring | Remote (agentless) | Nimsoft Monitor Server 7.1 to 7.6 and CA UIM 8.0 or later | |||
Docker Monitoring | Provides a container-based virtualization platform to develop, ship, and run applications. | None | Remote (agentless) | CA UIM 8.2 or later | |||
E2E Application Response Monitoring | Runs pre-compiled NimRecorder scripts. Individual transactions can be timed and Quality of Service (QoS) messages can be sent from the script, as well as the total run time as measured by the probe itself. | Response Time Monitoring | Remote (agentless) | CA UIM 8.0 or later | |||
EAServer | Handles all common monitoring and data collection tasks for Sybase EAServer. | Applications | Local (agent-based) | Sybase EAServer 6.0.0, 6.0.1, or 6.1.0 | Windows, Solaris, and Linux | ||
ecometer | CA ecoMeter | Captures near real-time data from IT and building infrastructure to provide a clear and comprehensive picture of power, cooling, energy use, and other environmental variables. | Applications | Remote (agentless) | |||
CA ecoMeter Monitoring | Collects and monitors power and cooling data from devices using various protocols (SNMP, Modbus, BACnet, and EnergyWise). | Data Center Montoring | Remote (agentless) | CA UIM 8.31 | Configurable in CA ecoMeter Administrator portlet; not verified | ||
Email Response Monitoring | Tests internet mail response by sending mail messages and reading a mailbox, using SMTP and pop3/imap. | Directory and Email Server | Remote (agentless) | Nimsoft Monitor Server 7.6 and CA UIM 8.0 or later | |||
Microsoft Exchange Server Response Monitoring | Tests Exchange Server mail response times by sending test e-mail messages and reading a mailbox. | Application (Directory and Email Server) | Remote (agentless) | CA UIM 8.0 or later | |||
Microsoft Exchange Monitoring | Monitors Exchange Server health. | Application (Directory and Email Server) | Local (agent-based) | Microsoft Exchange Server 2003, 2007, 2010, 2013, 2013 SP1 (on Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2), 2013 SP3 (on Windows Server 2012), and 2016 | CA UIM 8.0 or later | ||
fault_correlation_engine - no longer supported | Fault Correlation Engine | Provides general fault correlation services, and can host multiple fault correlation applications. | None | NA | NA | NA | NA |
Google App Engine Monitoring | Monitors Google-published runtime and subsystem statuses that are available from from http://code.google.com/status/appengine. The GAE probe is also capable of directly measuring the performance of the Java runtime and all subsystems through the use of the DX UIM GAE Plugin (NGaeP). | Cloud/SaaS | Remote (agentless) | ||||
Google Apps Monitoring | Monitors the Google-published application statuses that are available from http://www.google.com/appsstatus. The google_apps probe is also capable of measuring and alarming on aspects of a specific domain. Google provides a set of domain reports from which the probe gathers metrics. The probe is also capable of performing various end-user operations, like creating a document and measuring the latency of the operation. | Cloud/SaaS | Local/Remote (agentless) | CA UIM 8.2 or later | |||
Hapdoop Monitoring | Monitors the availability and performance of a Hadoop cluster. This includes hosts, nodes (named and secondary), HDFS, Hive, and other services. | Database | Local (agent-based) | Nimsoft Monitor Server 7.6 and CA UIM 8.0 or later | |||
Health Index | Collects alarms generated by monitoring probes from the DX UIM message bus; the health index calculator uses these alarms to calculate a health score for computer systems and configuration items (CI Type IDs) for comparison in order to detect a change in system behavior. | None | CA UIM 8.4 or later | ||||
hub_adapter | Hub Adapter | Acts as a proxy for communication between a secure hub and legacy robots. | None | None | |||
Microsoft Hyper-V Monitoring | Monitors Microsoft Hyper-V Servers. The probe collects and stores data and information from the monitored system at customizable intervals. | Virtualization | Remote (agentless) | Windows 2008/2012/2012 R2 Server + Hyper-V or Windows 2008 Server Core + Hyper-V | CA UIM 8.2 or later | ||
ibm-ds/ibm_ds4k | IBM Storage Monitoring | Storage probe that monitors IBM DS3xxx and IBM DS4xxx storage arrays. | Storage | Remote (agentless) | SMI-S Provider for IBM DS4xxx | Nimsoft Monitor Server 7.6 and CA UIM 8.0 or later | |
IBM Disk Storage System 8000 Series Monitoring | Monitors IBM DS8xxx storage systems and stores the monitoring information at specified intervals. | None | Remote (agentless) | IBM DS8xxx storage systems | CA UIM 8.2 or later | ||
IBM Virtualization REST Monitoring | Monitors IBM PowerVM virtualization solutions through the IBM HMC REST API. | Virtualization | Remote (agentless) | IBM HMC 8.1.0 or later | CA UIM server 8.2 or later | ||
Citrix Client Response Monitoring | Tests a Citrix terminal server-client connection by executing the login and logout commands. The ica_response probe also enables you to launch an application or run a macro script. | Applications | Remote (agentless) | CitrixOnlinePluginWeb File v 12.3 or Citrix Receiver 4.1x or later | CA UIM 8.2 or later | ||
ids_services | Infrastructure Data Service | A web service package that installs and runs in the service_host probe. | None | ||||
interface_traffic - no longer supported | Interface Traffic Monitoring | Network probe that monitors network interface traffic on SNMP agents using standard MIB-II queries. | Network | Remote (agentless) | |||
Disk Activity Monitoring | Collects disk activity statistics and metrics from the iostat command on Solaris, Linux and AIX servers. | Server | Solaris, Linux, or AIX server | Nimsoft Monitor Server 5.1.1 and CA UIM 8.0 or later | |||
Java Database Connectivity SQL Queries Response Monitoring | Issues custom SQL statements against database servers utilizing the JDBC client interface for the purpose of measuring response time and data gathering. | Database | Local (agent-based) / Remote (agentless) | JDBC database | Nimsoft Monitor Server 7.6 and CA UIM 8.0 or later | ||
iSeries Journal Message Monitoring | Monitors the journal messages on an iSeries computer hosting the probe. The QAUDJRN journal is configured to be monitored, and additional journals may be specified for monitoring. | IBM iSeries/AS400 | Local (agent-based) | IBM iSeries (AS/400) 5.1 or above | Nimsoft Monitor Server 7.6 and CA UIM 8.0 or later | ||
Java Virtual Machine Monitoring | Monitors CPU, threads, and memory usage on Java Virtual Machines (JVM) | Applications | Local (agent-based) / Remote (agentless) | CA UIM 8.0 or later | |||
LDAP Server Response Monitoring | Monitors LDAP servers by executing specified queries at regular intervals. These queries measure the response time and number of records returned. | None | Remote (agentless) | LDAP servers | Nimsoft Monitor Server 7.6 and CA UIM 8.0 or later | ||
Microsoft Lync Monitoring | Monitors the health and performance of Microsoft Lync Server 2010 by gathering information about the performance of the server and the audio and video quality of network media. | Applications | Local (agent-based) | Microsoft Lync Server 2010, 2013, 2015 | Nimsoft Monitor Server 7.6 and CA UIM 8.0 or later | ||
Maintenance Mode | Sets user-specified maintenance windows for devices. | None | AC; Raw configuration through USM or the CA UIM RESTful web services | ||||
Monitoring Configuration Service | Responsible for housekeeping and recurring tasks: applies configuration profiles to probes; checks for configuration profile changes; reconcile configuration changes; removes inactive profiles from the database at the configured interval; proxies requests from the Primary Hub to probes behind a firewall. | None | CA UIM 8.0 or later | ||||
MongoDB Monitoring | Monitors the internal performance and resource usage throughout a node in a MongoDB cluster. | Database | Local (agent-based) | MongoDB version 2.6, 3.0, or 3.2, running on Linux (Linux kernel 2.6 recommended) | Nimsoft Monitor Server 7.6 and CA UIM 8.0 or later | ||
Monitoring Services | Enables monitoring services from the Service Host probe. | None | |||||
Network Connectivity Monitoring | Measures network connectivity based on ‘ping’ (ICMP ECHO) and TCP connections to a list of user-defined services. | Network | Remote (agentless) | CA UIM 8.0 or later (CA UIM 8.31 or later to migrate with threhold_migrator probe) | |||
NetApp Data ONTAP Monitoring | Remotely monitor the health and performance of storage objects and systems running Data ONTAP 8.2x and 8.3x versions in Cluster mode. | None | Remote (agentless) | Data ONTAP 8.2x and 8.3x | CA UIM 8.2 or later | ||
net_traffic - no longer supported | Network Traffic Analyzer | Measures network bandwidth usage in terms of packets per second, and bytes per second. You can profile network usage by defining your own profiles containing criteria such as source, destination (host/network) addresses, and port/service information. | Network | Remote (agentless) | Nimsoft Monitor Server 7.6 and CA UIM 8.0 or later | N/A | |
netware - no longer supported | NetWare Server Monitoring | System | N/A | ||||
NFA Inventory | Integration point between CA Network Flow Analysis (CA NFA) and DX Unified Infrastructure Management (DX UIM). The integration allows you to view NetFlow/IPFIX/Jflow/Sflow data in context with SNMP data for an interface inside of the Unified Management Portal (UMP). | None | Remote (agentless) | CA UIM 8.4 or later | |||
NIS Server | An engine that runs automatically on a prescribed interval to persist and populate groups created in the Unified Service Manager (USM) web interface. | N/A | |||||
Lotus Notes Client Response Monitoring | Monitors Notes servers from the client perspective. Alarm messages can be generated on availability, failover situations and response times. | Applications | Local (agent-based) / Remote (agentless) | Domino Server version 7.0.2, 8.0 and 8.5 (Release 8.5 (359)) | Nimsoft Monitor Server 7.6 and CA UIM 8.0 or later | ||
Lotus Notes Server Monitoring | Monitors the performance of the IBM Domino Server: server latency, server availability, server statistics variable values, and named views of the log.nsf file. | Applications | Local (agent-based) / Remote (agentless) | Domino Server version 7.0.2, 8.0 and 8.5 (Release 8.5 (359)) | Nimsoft Monitor Server 7.6 and CA UIM 8.0 or later | ||
IBM Domino Server Montiroing | Monitors the performance of the IBM Domino server: server latency, server availability, server statistics variable values, and named views of the log.nsf file. The probe can generate alarm messages on statistics variables and log entries, and Quality of Service messages on availability and statistics variables. | None | Nimsoft Monitor Server 7.6 and CA UIM 8.0 or later | ||||
NQ Services | Makes services internally available to CA NFA and other CA NetQoS products to allow these products to interrogate DX UIM for data. | None | CA UIM 8.4 or later | ||||
Network Time Protocol Response Monitoring | Tests Network Time Protocol responses by requesting status information from the NTP server, or in the case of an SNTP server, requesting the current time. | Response Time Monitoring | Local (agent-based) / Remote (agentless) | CA UIM 8.0 or later | |||
Windows NT Services Monitoring | Monitors Windows NT services. The ntservices probe can report services not in the expected state and optionally start or stop them. | Server | Local (agent-based) | CA UIM 8.0 or later | |||
Nutanix Monitoring | Delivers enterprise converged computing, storage, and virtualization through the deployment of commodity computing servers. | None | Remote (agentless) | Nutanix | CA UIM 8.2 or later | ||
ocs_monitor | Microsoft Office Communication Server Monitoring | Monitors the health and performance of Microsoft Office Communications Server by gathering information about the audio and video quality of network media. Additionally, the probe collects usage information (CDR) about Office Communications Server, which helps you to calculate the return on investment of your deployment and also enables you to plan future growth of your deployment. | Applications | Local (agent-based) / Remote (agentless) | Microsoft Office Communications Server | ||
Oracle Database Monitoring | Runs selected SQL statements to extract vital information about your Oracle servers. The information is presented to the database administrator as alarms and/or as a report. | Database | Local (agent-based) / Remote (agentless) | Windows: Oracle Client (Net Services) 11.x or 12.x Linux and Solaris: Oracle Client 11.x or 12.x | CA UIM 8.0 or later | ||
oracle_logmon | Oracle Database Log Monitoring | Contains predefined watcher definitions for monitoring the Oracle Alert Log. This package is an extension to the logmon probe. | Database | Local (agent-based) | Windows: Oracle Client (Net Services) 11.x or 12.x Linux and Solaris: Oracle Client 11.x or 12.x | CA UIM 8.0 or later | |
CA Digital Operational Intelligence Gateway | Integrates DX Unified Infrastructure Management (DX UIM) and DX Operational Intelligence (DOI). You can configure the oi_connector probe to send data to DX Operational Intelligence. | Gateway | Remote (agentless) | CA UIM 9.0.2 or later | |||
iSeries Output Queue Monitoring | Monitors output queues on an iSeries system. Alarm messages can be generated there are too many entries in the output queue. The probe also supports QoS (Quality of Service) messages, directed towards the DX UIM SLA (Service Level Agreement) family. | IBM iSeries/AS400 | Local (agent-based) | IBM iSeries (AS/400) 5.1 or above | Nimsoft Monitor Server 7.6 and CA UIM 8.0 or later | ||
ovnnm | Acts as a gateway between DX UIM and HP OpenView NNM. DX UIM Alarms are represented by dynamically created objects which can be used in Business Process Views. | Gateway | Remote (agentless) | ||||
Package Editor | Creates and modifies packages that are used for distribution to robots. | Infrastructure (None) | Remote (agentless) | ||||
power - no longer supported | Power Monitoring | Application | N/A | ||||
pollagent | Enables SNMPCollector functionality. | Network | |||||
PostgreSQL Monitoring | Monitors the internal performance and space usage of PostgreSQL databases. | Database | |||||
Prediction Engine | Samples of QoS data at the top of the hour to calculate a linear regression line that is based on an hourly median for QoS metrics with a Time To Threshold alarm configured. | None | CA UIM 8.0 or later | ||||
proxy - no longer supported | Proxy | Makes remote probes available by creating virtual robots for them. | None; see Notes | N/A | |||
puppetgtw | Puppet Gateway | Allows Puppet (mcollective) orchestration tasks to be initiated from DX UIM. | None | Nimsoft Monitor Server 7.6 and CA UIM 8.0 or later | |||
PureStorage All-Flash Array Monitoring | Monitor the performance and usage of the PureStorage FlashArray systems. | None | Remote (agentless) | PureStorage FlashArray systems | CA UIM 8.3 or later | ||
PVS | Monitors Citrix provisioning services based Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) environments. The pvs probe automatically discovers virtual desktops, as well as hypervisor virtual machines that power the virtual desktops that may be using VMware vSphere, Xenserver or hyper-v virtualization technologies. | Virtualization | Remote (agentless) | Citrix Provisioning Services 6.1 or later | CA UIM 8.1 or later | ||
QoS Processor | Updates the Origin changes in the database when the Origin changes at the robot and hub; allows custom enrichment of QoS metric properties; saves baseline data to the database and matching alarms to QoS data. | None | CA UIM bus | CA UIM 8.1 or later | |||
quickstart_engine | eHealth QuickStart | Preserves CA eHealth configuration information for DX UIM. | None | CA eHealth inventory groups | CA UIM Probe Utility and Raw Configure | ||
rackspace - no longer supported | Rackspace Cloud Server and Cloud File Monitoring | Monitors Rackspace IaaS offerings (called Cloud Servers) and Cloud Files (storage) integrated with the Limelight content delivery network (CDN). | Cloud/SaaS | Remote (agentless) | N/A | ||
relationship_services - no longer supported | Relationship Services | Relationship ServicesHandles communication between discovery_agent and topology_agent and connects many topology and Root Cause Analysis (RCA) processes. | None | ||||
remedy_response - no longer supported | Monitor Response Times to Remedy ARS | Application | N/A | ||||
remedygtw | Remedy Gateway | Acts as a gateway for alarms into the BMC Remedy Action Request System (ARS). | None | Remote (agentless) | |||
report_engine - no longer supported | Report Engine | None | N/A | ||||
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Monitoring | Monitors RHEV environments. The rhev probe collects and stores information from the monitored RHEV environments including Data Centers, Host and VMs with various capacity and performance data at customizable intervals. | Virtualization | Remote (agentless) | Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization v3.5 or earlier | CA UIM 8.1 or later | ||
Remote System Probe | Monitors system metrics and collects performance data in an agentless manner without having to install proprietary software on the system. The probe gathers statistics on CPU utilization, disk, and memory usage. | System | Remote (agentless) | CA UIM 8.0 or later (CA UIM 8.31 or later to migrate with threhold_migrator probe) | |||
REST Client Monitoring | monitor any technology or device data using the REST APIs. Using the sample schemas that are provided by DX UIM you can customize the schema which details the QoS and the aggregation logic with the http/https REST endpoints. You can define the metrics, alarms, and can populate CABI dashboards for the monitored devices. | API | |||||
saa_monitor | Cisco IPSLA/SAA Monitoring | Monitors Cisco devices supporting Service Assurance Agent (also known as IPSLA). | Network | Remote (agentless) | |||
Salesforce Monitoring | Monitors Salesforce availability and response times. | Cloud/SaaS | Remote (agentless) | ||||
sapbasis_agentil | SAP Basis Monitoring | DX UIM for SAP is developed and maintained by AGENTIL and utilizes our monitoring infrastructure and reporting to give customers a Unified view of SAP and datacenter performance. | Applications | Remote (agentless) | |||
sdngtw (SDN for VNA) | Service Desk Virtual Network Assurance | Enables existing infrastructure management solutions to monitor software-defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization. | None | CA UIM 8.4 or later | |||
Service Host | The services container for DX Unified Infrastructure Management Server | None | CA UIM 8.1 to 8.31 (verify) | ||||
Microsoft SharePoint Server | Monitors Microsoft Sharepoint Server (both Sharepoint Services and Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server). | Applications | Local (agent-based) / Remote (agentless) | "Microsoft Office SharePoint Server Microsoft SharePoint Services 3.0 Microsoft SharePoint 2013, 2010, 2007" | CA UIM 8.0 or later | ||
Calculates Service Level Agreements | Computes Service Level Agreement (SLA) compliance based on the settings for the different SLAs entered in the Service Level Manager (SLM). | None | CA UIM 8.0 or later | ||||
SNMP Data Monitoring | An internet-standard protocol for managing devices on IP networks. | Network | Remote (agentless) | ||||
Simple Network Management Protocol Agent Data Monitoring | Sends SNMP GET queries to SNMP devices. The probe then changes the query result into configured alarm and Quality of Service messages for Service Level Agreement (SLA). | None | Remote (agentless) | Nimsoft Monitor Server 7.6 and CA UIM 8.0 or later | |||
SNMP Gateway | Converts DX UIM alarm messages to SNMP Trap messages readable by any SNMP-based event manager. A predefined set of profiles exist for transforming the DX UIM alarm message to some well-known event managers, like HP-OpenView, CA Unicenter-TNG, and BMC CommandPost. | Gateway | Remote (agentless) | SNMP Devices | |||
snmptoolkit - no longer supported | Simple Network Management Protocol Toolkit | Enables SNMP monitoring for any SNMP enabled device, with the specific ability to create monitoring templates for Table/index heavy SNMP MIBS. | Network | ||||
Spectrum Gateway | Provides a bidirectional (DX UIM to CA Spectrum and CA Spectrum to DX UIM) integration. | None | CA UIM 8.47; CA Spectrum 10.1.2 | ||||
SQL Server Response Monitoring | Executes SQL queries (using ADO or ODBC connectivity) and evaluates response time, number of returned rows, and returned value. | Database | Local (agent-based) / Remote (agentless) | ADO or ODBC connections | Nimsoft Monitor Server 7.6 and CA UIM 8.0 or later | ||
temperature - no longer supported | Temperature | System | N/A | ||||
Threshold Migrator | Migrates the probe threshold configuration values to the standard static threshold configuration of the baseline_engine. | None | CA UIM 8.31 or later | ||||
tnggtw - no longer supported | Framework Integration for Unicenter TNG | Gateway | N/A | ||||
Tomcat Server Monitoring | Monitors Apache Tomcat servers using a JMX interface (jsr160). Apache Tomcat is the servlet container that is used in the official Reference Implementation for the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages technologies. | Applications | Local (agent-based) / Remote (agentless) | Apache Tomcat | Nimsoft Monitor Server 7.6 and CA UIM 8.0 or later | ||
topology_agent - no longer supported | Topology Discovery Agent | The topology_agent is used as part of Topology and Root Cause Analysis in DX UIM. | None | ||||
UDM Manager | Serves as a Datomic transactor and interacts with the Datomic peers integrated in existing DX UIM components. | None | |||||
ugs (deprecated) | Unified Grouping Service | Persists and populates groups that are created in the Unified Service Manager (USM) web interface. | None | ||||
UIM ESD PLA Telemetry | The UIM ESD PLA Telemetry probe provides monitoring of the Enterprise Software Portfolio License Agreement (PLA) model. | Telemetry | NA | ||||
URL Endpoint Response Monitoring | Monitors the page download time for a URL. The url_response probe can also perform comparison checks on the page contents. The url_response probe supports proxies and user authentication. The probe also supports QoS (Quality of Service) messages, directed towards the DX UIM SLA (Service Level Agreement) family. | Response Time Monitoring | Local (agent-based) / Remote (agentless) | CA UIM 8.0 or later | |||
Usage Metering | Supports device-based metering by scanning the DX UIM environment to identify all the monitored devices. | None | (v 1.30: November 2011) | ||||
variable_server - no longer supported | Variable Server | Functions as a data repository, from which various CA applications can retrieve data. This data repository ensures an instant reply without having to deal with the data-specific initialization and retrieval. | Infrastructure (None) | N/A | |||
vCloud Director Monitoring | Monitors virtual data centers, vCloud Director resources, and ESX environments. vApp networks, VLAN IDs, associated metrics can also be monitored with this probe. | Virtualization | Remote (agentless) | VMware vCloud Directors | CA Unified Infrastructure Management Monitor Server 5.1.1 or later, CA Unified Infrastructure Management robot version 5.32 or later | ||
EMC VMAX Storage Systems Monitoring | Monitors EMC Symmetrix VMAX storage systems. | Storage | Remote (agentless) | EMC Symmetrix VMAX systems | |||
EMC VNXe Series Storage Monitoring | Monitors EMC VNXe Series Storage systems using Unisphere CLI. | Storage | Remote (agentless) | Unisphere CLI version 2.0.0 or later. The probe supports the EMC VNXe Series 1600 Storage server | CA UIM 8.47 or later | ||
Web Application Server Probe (previously named Web Application Service Provider) | As an embedded Tomcat web server that runs as a probe, wasp and the web applications running on wasp provide access to both DX UIM data through portlets in the Unified Management Portal (UMP) and Admin Console. | None | CA UIM 8.1 or later | ||||
Webservice URL Monitoring | Monitors the status of web services, including the ability to monitor responsiveness, status codes, SSL certificates, and response validation. | Response Time Monitoring | Remote (agentless) | Nimsoft Monitor Server 7.6 and CA UIM 8.0 or later | |||
WebSphere MQ Monitoring | Monitors Queue Manager, Queue, and Channel on IBM MQ Series systems. | Applications | Local (agent-based) | IBM WebSphere MQ version 7.5.X or 7.0.X, IBM WebSphere MQ version 7.5.x for AIX 6.x, and 8.0.X, | CA UIM 8.0 or later | ||
Citrix Xenapp Monitoring | Acts as a virtual user, exercising published applications and providing preemptive service-level monitoring. The probe will remotely execute and measure the time required to open a Citrix ICA session, log in to an application, and conduct any transaction. | Application | Remote (agentless) | Citrix XenApp version 6.5 deployed on Windows 2008R2 and later | CA UIM 8.0 or later | ||
Citrix Xendesktop Monitoring | Monitors Citrix XenDesktop-based Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) environments. The XenDesktop probe automatically discovers virtual XenDesktop, as well as hypervisor virtual machines that power the virtual desktops. The probe communicates with the XenDesktop VDI environment using PowerShell commands and extracts key information for real-time monitoring. | Virtualization | Remote (agentless) | Citrix XenDesktop and Citrix XenApp servers (later than version 7.0) | CA UIM 8.0 or later | ||
Data Service | Retrieves data from various data sources to DX UIM in order to monitor z/OS and z/VM systems. | None | z/OS and z/VM systems | CA UIM 8.2 or later | |||
zevent Monitoring | Monitoring and responding to the mainframe events in DX UIM Alarm Console. | None | CA OPS/MVS | CA UIM 8.47 or later | |||
Message Service Probe | translates a message from the formal messaging protocol of the sender to the formal messaging protocol of the receiver. This probe acts as a broker for the zevent probe and all Message Service Servers installed on the LPAR. | None | CA UIM 8.47 or later | ||||
Network Monitoring | Locates excessive traffic on the network and takes required measures to correct and proactively prevent this behavior. | None | z/OS | CA UIM 8.2 or later | |||