Endpoint Operations Management Agent Plug-in Development Kit Table 1-1. vRealize Operations Manager Support Classes(Continued) When to Invoke the Supp Win-Perf Counters IIS, Exchange, DS,. NET To gather metrics from an application that surfaces perf counters SIGAR System, Process, Netstat To communicate with an operating ystem SIGAR is HQ,s proprietary OS- P Net Protocols Http Ftp Smtp and so on To communicate with platform services that HQ already has built-in, but you might Vendor Citrix. DB2. VMware Writing Plug-ins While the interface with vRealize Operations Manager plug-ins is straightforward, you also must determine how to retrieve data from a managed resources and how it should appear in the inventory model, and at what level Plug-in Naming Plug-in names must be in the following formats, where PluginName is the name of the plug-in, as specified in the root plugin element of the plug-in descriptor PluginName-plugin jar for a plug-in that contains program or script files in addition to the plug-in XML descriptor. PluginName-plugin xml for a plug-in that consists only of the plug-in XML descripto JMX Plug-in Auto-discovery(called"auto-inventory"within plug-ins)is easily implemented by implementing a vRealize Operations Manager-provided autoinventory plug-in To implement auto-discovery at the server level, you must invoke an autoinventory plug-in with the Mx ServerDetector class within the server tag: <server name="Java Server Name" version ="version #" <plugin type="autoinventory" class="org. hyperic hq- product. jmx. Mx ServerDetector" />Table 1‑1. vRealize Operations Manager Support Classes (Continued) Category Support Classes When to Invoke the Support Class Win-Perf Counters IIS, Exchange, DS, .NET To gather metrics from an application that surfaces perf counters SIGAR System, Process, Netstat To communicate with an operating system. SIGAR is HQ's proprietary OS￾independent API Net Protocols HTTP, FTP, SMTP, and so on To communicate with platform services that HQ already has built-in, but you might want to gather additional metrics from it Vendor Citrix, DB2, VMware Writing Plug-ins While the interface with vRealize Operations Manager plug-ins is straightforward, you also must determine how to retrieve data from a managed resources and how it should appear in the inventory model, and at what level. Plug-in Naming Plug-in names must be in the following formats, where PluginName is the name of the plug-in, as specified in the root plugin element of the plug-in descriptor: n PluginName-plugin.jar for a plug-in that contains program or script files in addition to the plug-in XML descriptor. n PluginName-plugin.xml for a plug-in that consists only of the plug-in XML descriptor. JMX Plug-in Auto-discovery (called "auto-inventory" within plug-ins) is easily implemented by implementing a vRealize Operations Manager-provided autoinventory plug-in. To implement auto-discovery at the server level, you must invoke an autoinventory plug-in with the MxServerDetector class within the server tag: <server name="Java Server Name" version ="version #"> ... <plugin type="autoinventory" class="org.hyperic.hq.product.jmx.MxServerDetector"/> ... </server> Endpoint Operations Management Agent Plug-in Development Kit VMware, Inc. 7