ca-siteminder-monitoring-extension

An AppDynamics extension to be used with a stand alone Java machine agent to provide metrics for CA's Siteminder.

Use Case

CA Site Minder (a.k.a. Netegrity Site Minder SSO) is a web access management system that enables user authentication and secure Internet SSO (single sign-on), policy-driven authorization, federation of identities, and complete auditing of all access to the web applications it protects.

Prerequisites

1. Before the extension is installed, the prerequisites mentioned here need to be met. Please do not proceed with the extension installation if the specified prerequisites are not met

2. This extension extracts the metrics from CA SiteMinder through SNMP. For the extension to work, the SNMP subagent in SiteMinder needs to be started. This snmp subagent module is found in the <SiteMinder_Installation_Dir>\bin\snmprun.bat on Windows. A similar location for UNIX can be easily located. The port on which the SNMP subagent is listening can be found from the <SiteMinder_Installation_Dir>\config\snmp.conf directory.

3. The extension uses UDP to connect to SiteMinder. Please make sure that the necessary port is open for UDP traffic.

4. The extension is pre-configured with metrics and their associated OIDs. In case if the OIDs need to be validated, the MIB file can be found in the <SiteMinder_Installation_Dir>\MIB directory.

Installation

1. Run "mvn clean install"
2. Unzip the contents of SiteMinderMonitor-<version>.zip file (<CASiteMinderMonitor> / targets) and copy the directory to <your-machine-agent-dir>/monitors.
3. Edit config.yml file and provide the required configuration (see Configuration section)
4. Restart the Machine Agent.

Please place the extension in the "monitors" directory of your Machine Agent installation directory. Do not place the extension in the "extensions" directory of your Machine Agent installation directory.

Configuration

Note : Please make sure to not use tab (\t) while editing yaml files. You may want to validate the yaml file using a yaml validator

1. Configure the siteminder instances by editing the config.yml file in <MACHINE_AGENT_HOME>/monitors/SiteMinderMonitor/.

2. Below is the default config.yml which has metrics configured already For eg.

     #Metric prefix when SIM is enabled
     #metricPrefix: Custom Metrics|SiteMinder
   
     #This will create it in specific Tier/Component. Make sure to replace <COMPONENT_ID> with the appropriate one
     #from your environment. To find the <COMPONENT_ID> in your environment, please follow the screenshot in
     #https://community.appdynamics.com/t5/Knowledge-Base/How-do-I-troubleshoot-missing-custom-metrics-or-extensions/ta-p/28695
     metricPrefix: Server|Component:<COMPONENT_ID>|Custom Metrics|SiteMinder
   
   
     instances:
       - host: "sample.host.com"
         port: 161
         communityString: public
         snmpVersion: 2 # Only required for snmp v1, will default to 2. Support only v1 and v2.
         displayName: "SiteMinder Manager"  #Required field for display purposes
         #timeout: 1 # second, by default
         #retries: 5
         #maxRepetitions: 10
   
         #resources: creates a resource mapping that can be used to create readable metric paths.
         #You may want to see machine names and not ids in the metric path.
         #You can choose to remove the resources section completely and it will show you machine ids in the metric path.
         resources:
             #maps policyServerIndex to policyServerHostID
           - component: "policyServer"
             include:
               policyServerHostID: "1.3.6.1.4.1.2552.200.300.1.1.1.3"
             #maps webAgentIndex to webAgentHostID
           - component: "webagents"
             include:
               webAgentHostID: "1.3.6.1.4.1.2552.200.300.2.1.1.3"
   
   
        #You can configure multiple components like policyServer,webagents. The component names should match with
        #the ones in the resources section
         metrics:
           - component: "policyServer"   #component name
             include:
               - policyServerMaxSockets: "1.3.6.1.4.1.2552.200.300.1.3.1.17"
               - policyServerSocketCount: "1.3.6.1.4.1.2552.200.300.1.3.1.18"
               - policyServerAuthAcceptCount: "1.3.6.1.4.1.2552.200.300.1.3.1.19"
               - policyServerAuthRejectCount: "1.3.6.1.4.1.2552.200.300.1.3.1.20"
               - policyServerAzAcceptCount: "1.3.6.1.4.1.2552.200.300.1.3.1.21"
               - policyServerAzRejectCount: "1.3.6.1.4.1.2552.200.300.1.3.1.22"
               - policyServerStatus: "1.3.6.1.4.1.2552.200.300.1.3.1.5"
                 convert: {
                   "Active" : "1",
                   "Inactive" : "2",
                   "$default" : "0"
                 }
   
           - component: "webagents"
             include:
               - webAgentSocketCount: "1.3.6.1.4.1.2552.200.300.2.1.1.17"
               - webAgentResourceCacheCount: "1.3.6.1.4.1.2552.200.300.2.1.1.18"
               - webAgentResourceCacheHits: "1.3.6.1.4.1.2552.200.300.2.1.1.19"
               - webAgentResourceCacheMax: "1.3.6.1.4.1.2552.200.300.2.1.1.20"
               - webAgentResourceCacheMisses: "1.3.6.1.4.1.2552.200.300.2.1.1.21"
               - webAgentUserSessionCacheCount: "1.3.6.1.4.1.2552.200.300.2.1.1.22"
               - webAgentUserSessionCacheHits: "1.3.6.1.4.1.2552.200.300.2.1.1.23"
               - webAgentUserSessionCacheMax: "1.3.6.1.4.1.2552.200.300.2.1.1.24"
               - webAgentUserSessionCacheMisses: "1.3.6.1.4.1.2552.200.300.2.1.1.25"
               - webAgentIsProtectedCount: "1.3.6.1.4.1.2552.200.300.2.1.1.26"
               - webAgentIsProtectedErrors: "1.3.6.1.4.1.2552.200.300.2.1.1.27"
               - webAgentIsProtectedAvgTime: "1.3.6.1.4.1.2552.200.300.2.1.1.28"
               - webAgentLoginCount: "1.3.6.1.4.1.2552.200.300.2.1.1.29"
               - webAgentLoginErrors: "1.3.6.1.4.1.2552.200.300.2.1.1.30"
               - webAgentLoginFailures: "1.3.6.1.4.1.2552.200.300.2.1.1.31"
               - webAgentLoginAvgTime: "1.3.6.1.4.1.2552.200.300.2.1.1.32"
               - webAgentValidationCount: "1.3.6.1.4.1.2552.200.300.2.1.1.33"
               - webAgentValidationErrors: "1.3.6.1.4.1.2552.200.300.2.1.1.34"
               - webAgentValidationFailures: "1.3.6.1.4.1.2552.200.300.2.1.1.35"
               - webAgentValidationAvgTime: "1.3.6.1.4.1.2552.200.300.2.1.1.36"
               - webAgentAuthorizeCount: "1.3.6.1.4.1.2552.200.300.2.1.1.37"
               - webAgentAuthorizeErrors: "1.3.6.1.4.1.2552.200.300.2.1.1.38"
               - webAgentAuthorizeFailures: "1.3.6.1.4.1.2552.200.300.2.1.1.39"
               - webAgentAuthorizeAvgTime: "1.3.6.1.4.1.2552.200.300.2.1.1.40"
               - webAgentCrosssiteScriptHits: "1.3.6.1.4.1.2552.200.300.2.1.1.41"
               - webAgentBadURLcharsHits: "1.3.6.1.4.1.2552.200.300.2.1.1.42"
               - webAgentBadCookieHitsCount: "1.3.6.1.4.1.2552.200.300.2.1.1.43"
               - webAgentExpiredCookieHitsCount: "1.3.6.1.4.1.2552.200.300.2.1.1.44"
               - webAgentStatus: "1.3.6.1.4.1.2552.200.300.2.1.1.5"
                 convert: {
                   "Active" : "1",
                   "Inactive" : "2",
                   "$default" : "0"
                 }
   
   
   
     # number of concurrent tasks.
     # This doesn't need to be changed unless many instances are configured
     numberOfThreads: 10
   
   

Please make sure to replace the COMPONENT_ID with the correct id in your environment. More details around metric prefix can be found here.

3. Configure the path to the config.yml file by editing the in the monitor.xml file in the <MACHINE_AGENT_HOME>/monitors/SiteMinderMonitor/ directory. Below is the sample

   <task-arguments>
       <!-- config file-->
       <argument name="config-file" is-required="true" default-value="monitors/SiteMinderMonitor/config.yml" />
        ....
   </task-arguments>
   

Make sure to use the right path for Windows.

Yml Validation

Please copy all the contents of the config.yml file and go here . On reaching the website, paste the contents and press the “Validate YAML” button.

Metrics Provided

This extension extracts metrics for the policyServer and webagents components.

Extensions Workbench

Workbench is an inbuilt feature provided with each extension in order to assist you to fine tune the extension setup before you actually deploy it on the controller. Please review the following document on How to use the Extensions WorkBench

Troubleshooting

1. Please follow the steps listed in this troubleshooting-document in order to troubleshoot your issue. These are a set of common issues that customers might have faced during the installation of the extension.
2. Make sure to enable UDP traffic if not enabled by default.
3. Once the SNMP subagent module is started, the value for the respective OIDs can be viewed in a tool provided by CA. This tool can be found in the <SiteMinder_Installation_Dir>\bin\snmpwalkrun.bat directory.

Contributing

Always feel free to fork and contribute any changes directly here on GitHub.

Version

Name	Version
Extension Version	2.0.3
Last Update	11/01/2022
ChangeList	ChangeLog

Note: While extensions are maintained and supported by customers under the open-source licensing model, they interact with agents and Controllers that are subject to AppDynamics’ maintenance and support policy. Some extensions have been tested with AppDynamics 4.5.13+ artifacts, but you are strongly recommended against using versions that are no longer supported.