New Relic Infrastructure Integration for SoftwareAG Universal Messaging Server ( UMS)

The existing implementation reports the metrics for both Channels (including topics) and Queues of the SoftwareAG Universal Messaging Server. This implementation currently operates with the nps connection protocol and utilizes basic authentication. To ensure successful interaction, the Basic authentication relies on appropriately configured policies within the SoftwareAG Universal Messaging Server's ACL.

Disclaimer

New Relic has open-sourced this integration to enable monitoring of this technology. This integration is provided AS-IS WITHOUT WARRANTY OR SUPPORT, although you can report issues and contribute to this integration via GitHub.

Requirements

• New Relic Infrastructure Agent

Using Mangled Passwords in config files

In order to encrypt the password of the user connecting to UMS, you need to run the included utility (encyptPwd.bat/ encyptPwd.sh ) to mangle the password. Then place the encrypted password in the password field and include the encryptPassword field with a value of true.

In the extracted release directory run the encyptPwd.sh / encyptPwd.bat script as per the instruction below . It will output the aesKey and mangled password to use in softwareag-ums-server-config.json.

Step 1: Generate the 128 bit AES Key [ Example ]

      encyptPwd generateKey

Generated AES Key: <generated_aes_key>

Step 2: Generate the encypted password [ Example ]

  encyptPwd encryptPassword <generated_aes_key> <cleartext_password>

Encrypted Password: <encrypted_password>
Success !

Sample softwareag-ums-server-config.json

{
  "instances": [
    {
      "name": "SoftwareAG-UMS-Realm",
      "host": "localhost",
      "port": 9000,
      "username": "myuser4",
      "password": "<cleartext_password>",
      "encryptPassword": false,
      "isCluster": false
    },
    {
      "name": "SoftwareAG-UMS-Cluster",
      "host": "localhost",
      "port": 9001,
      "username": "myuser4",
      "password": "<encrypted_password>",
      "encryptPassword": true,
      "aeskey": "<generated_aes_key>"
    }
  ]
}

Edit softwareag-ums-server-config.json file to edit the tibco server(s) connection information. Edit softwareag-ums-config.yml file to edit the path for the json file above. Edit softwareag-ums-definition.yml file to edit the path for softwareag-ums.jar.

Attribute	Description
name	Name describing the UM Server
host	DNS name of IP of the UM Server
port	port number of UMS Server, typically 9000
username	username for connecting
password	provide password for user
encryptPassword	set to true if password is mangled (encrypted), else set to false
aeskey	(optional) when encryptPassword is false and (mandatory) when encryptPassword is true
isCluster	(optional) when isCluster is false it will be traeted as Realm node else it will be treated as cluster (by default)

Value

Metrics	Events	Logs	Traces	Visualization	Automation
❌	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌

The data collected is reported to New Relic as Custom Events. The following is a list of events that can be reported. An event is only recorded if data present for that item so not all events may be reported.

Event Types

Event Type	Description
EMSQueue	Metrics related to an UMS Queue. Attribute "Queue Name" is the name of the queue
EMSChannel	Metrics related to an UMS Channel and UMS Topics. Attribute "Channel Name" is the name of the channel
UMSCluster	Metrics related to a Cluster. Attribute "Cluster Name" is the name of the Cluster

Installation

1. Extract the Release archive to the local disk
2. Edit softwareag-ums-server-config.json according to the Confguration section above.
3. Either run the install script or follow the instructions below for manual installation.
4. Restart the infrastructure agent

sudo systemctl stop newrelic-infra

sudo systemctl start newrelic-infra

By Script

Linux

As the root user, run the following command:

./install.sh

Windows

./install.bat

Manual

Install the SoftwareAG UMS monitoring plugin

Linux

cp softwareag-ums.jar /var/db/newrelic-infra/custom-integrations

cp softwareag-ums-definition.yml /var/db/newrelic-infra/custom-integrations/

cp softwareag-ums-config.yml /etc/newrelic-infra/integrations.d/

cp softwareag-ums-server-config.json /etc/newrelic-infra/integrations.d/

Windows

copy softwareag-ums.jar "C:\Program Files\New Relic\newrelic-infra\custom-integrations\"

copy softwareag-ums-definition.yml "C:\Program Files\New Relic\newrelic-infra\custom-integrations\"

copy softwareag-ums-config.yml "C:\Program Files\New Relic\newrelic-infra\integrations.d"

copy softwareag-ums-server-config.json "C:\Program Files\New Relic\newrelic-infra\integrations.d"

Compatibility

• Supported OS: Windows, Linux

Support

New Relic has open-sourced this project. This project is provided AS-IS WITHOUT WARRANTY OR DEDICATED SUPPORT. Issues and contributions should be reported to the project here on GitHub.

We encourage you to bring your experiences and questions to the Explorers Hub where our community members collaborate on solutions and new ideas.

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A note about vulnerabilities

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If you believe you have found a security vulnerability in this project or any of New Relic's products or websites, we welcome and greatly appreciate you reporting it to New Relic through HackerOne.

License

[nri-softwareag-ums] is licensed under the Apache 2.0 License.