March 23, 2021

Authoring Management Packs and monitoring Linux/Unix using fragments

Bruce Cullen / Christian Heitkamp

In this month’s Coffee Break, Christian Heitkamp, Product Manager at NiCE IT Management Solutions, will be joining Bruce Cullen, Director of Products at Cookdown, to take us through the depths of Linux/Unix agent monitoring, starting with what off-the-shelf MPs can do, and ending in a practical workshop where Christian will show you how you can use VSAE (Visual Studio Authoring Extensions) with fragments to author custom monitoring – in order to enrich the depth of your monitoring. Please make sure you have VSAE ready if you’d like to follow along yourself.

Christian will also discuss some of the off-the-shelf Management Packs available for this task and run through the pros and cons of each.

During this webinar, we will discuss:

What options are available when monitoring Linux/Unix machines
How fragments allow users to add new rules, monitors, discoveries to Management Packs, quickly and accurately
How to author Management Packs using Visual Studio and fragments
How to use fragments with VSAE (Visual Studio Authoring Extensions)
Performance considerations and best practice for Linux MPs

Meet the author

Author

Bruce Cullen

Director of Products @ SquaredUp, Founding Member @ Cookdown

Meet Bruce, Product Director at SquaredUp & Founding member of Cookdown. He product manages cloud integrations and on-prem products bringing the worlds tools together under smart dashboards that understand your data. With a decade-long stint at Citrix under his belt, Bruce's journey from software tester to project management maestro saw him spearhead the transition of XenApp and XenDesktop (aka CVAD) from on-premises to cloud. Passionate about observability and sustainable computing, Bruce is your go-to guru for navigating the complexities of both cloud and on-prem software. When he's not orchestrating innovation at the keyboard, you'll find him conquering miles on his bike, pounding the pavement running, or enjoying precious moments with his family.

Christian Heitkamp

Director of Products (CMO) NICE IT Management Solutions GMBH

Christian Heitkamp is leading the product management at NiCE IT Management Solutions. As an ardent professional, he designs and develops extensions to Microsoft System Center and Microsoft 365 for many years and has specialist skills and certifications for Microsoft 365, Entra ID, IBM DB2, VMware vSphere, Oracle and other business applications. Through regular customer and partner engagements, he is bringing industry’s best practice to Microsoft System Center and Entra DI to enrich the value of IT management solutions.