This topic describes two methods to install the xdragon_hardware_detect_plugin monitoring plug-in. These methods are applicable to ECS bare metal instances that are equipped with local disks.

Prerequisites

You can install the monitoring plug-in on an ECS bare metal instance only when the instance meets the following requirements:

  • The instance is located in the China (Beijing), China (Shanghai), China (Hangzhou), China (Shenzhen), or China (Zhangjiakou-Beijing Winter Olympics) region.
  • The instance runs a Linux operating system.
  • To install the monitoring plug-in on multiple instances at a time by using Operation Orchestration Service (OOS) and use a tag to select ECS bare metal instances, the tag must be bound to the instances. For more information, see Create or add a tag.
  • To manually install the monitoring plug-in, you must make sure that the Cloud Assistant Agent is installed. For more information, see Install the .
    Note ECS instances that are created from public images after December 1, 2017 are pre-installed with the Cloud Assistant Agent.

Background information

If you are using an ECS bare metal instance equipped with a local disk, you must monitor and diagnose the health status of the local disk by using the xdragon_hardware_detect_plugin plug-in.

The xdragon_hardware_detect_plugin plug-in can check the health status of local disks on ECS bare metal instances on a regular basis. If an exception occurs to a local disk, the plug-in automatically reports the exception as a system event of the local disk. The corresponding system event code is SystemMaintenance.ReInitErrorDisk. For more information, see O&M scenarios and system events for instances equipped with local disks.

Install the monitoring plug-in on multiple instances at a time by using OOS

OOS can automatically install the xdragon_hardware_detect_plugin monitoring plug-in by using a public template.

  1. Log on to the OOS console.
  2. In the top navigation bar, select a region.
  3. On the Public Templates page, enter ACS-ECS-InstallXDragonAndCloudMonitor to search for the template that is used to install the monitoring plug-in. Click Create Execution.
    Install the xdragon_hardware_detect_plugin monitoring plug-in on multiple instances at a time - Create Execution
  4. On the Create page, configure the following settings:
    1. In the Basic Information step, set Execution Mode to Automatic and retain the default values for other parameters. Click Next: Parameter Settings.
    2. In the Parameter Settings step, set the following parameters and retain the default values for other parameters. Click Next: OK after you configure the settings.
      • targets: You can select one or more ECS bare metal instances to be polled and installed with the monitoring plug-in. You can select instances manually or by using tags.
      • action: You can select install to install the plug-in.
        Note This operation template can be used to install, update, or uninstall the monitoring plug-in. Set the action parameter based on your needs.
      • rateControl: You can select Concurrency-based Control, select % for Concurrency, and then set Concurrency to 100%.
      Install the xdragon_hardware_detect_plugin monitoring plug-in on multiple instances at a time - Create Execution
    3. Confirm the preceding settings and click Create.
    After the execution is created, you can go to the Executions page to view the execution results.
    • If Success is displayed in the Execution Status column corresponding to an O&M task, the O&M task is completed.
    • If Failed is displayed in the Execution Status column corresponding to an O&M task, you can click Details in the Actions column. Click Logs in the Output section. Then, you can analyze and adjust the execution content based on the log information.

Manually install the monitoring plug-in

You can perform the following operations to download and install the xdragon_hardware_detect_plugin monitoring plug-in by using the aliyun_installer tool provided by the Cloud Assistant Agent:

  1. Connect to an ECS bare metal instance as a root user.
  2. Optional:Run the aliyun_installer -h command to view the help information of the tool.
  3. Run the aliyun_installer command to install the xdragon_hardware_detect_plugin monitoring plug-in.
    aliyun_installer -i xdragon_hardware_detect_plugin -e 1.0.0
  4. Save and run the shell script that is used to install the special version of the Cloud Monitor plug-in. For more information about the shell script, see the sample script in the following section.
    bash <nameOfTheScript>.sh
    Note You must install the xdragon_hardware_detect_plugin monitoring plug-in before you install the Cloud Monitor plug-in. If you have installed the Cloud Monitor plug-in first, run the /usr/local/cloudmonitor/CmsGoAgent.linux-amd64 restart command to restart the Cloud Monitor plug-in.
  5. Run the smartctl -V command to check whether the local disk monitoring and analysis tool smartctl is installed on the instance.
    If the version number of the smartctl tool is shown in the command output, the tool is installed on the instance.
  6. Optional:If the version number of the smartctl tool is not shown in the command output, install the tool by using one of the following methods:
    • For CentOS:
      yum install smartmontools
    • For Ubuntu:
      apt update &&  apt install smartmontools
    • For more information about the installation methods for other Linux distributions, visit smartmontools document.
Sample shell script for manually installing the special version of the Cloud Monitor plug-in:
#! /bin/bash
echo "installing cms agent"

if [ -z "${CMS_HOME}" ]; then
  CMS_HOME="/usr/local/cloudmonitor"
  [[ ! -z "`egrep -i coreos /etc/os-release`" ]] && CMS_HOME="/opt/cloudmonitor"
fi

if [ `uname -m` = "x86_64" ]; then
    ARCH="amd64"
else
    ARCH="386"
fi

VERSION="2.1.57"
ELF_NAME=CmsGoAgent.linux-${ARCH}
DOWNLOAD_PATH="cms-go-agent/${VERSION}/${ELF_NAME}"
DEST_UPDATE_FILE="$CMS_HOME/${ELF_NAME}"

current_cms_version="0"
# SHENLONG always x86 arch, judge version
if [ -f /usr/local/cloudmonitor/CmsGoAgent.linux-amd64 ]; then
    current_cms_version="$($DEST_UPDATE_FILE version)"
fi

if [ $current_cms_version = "2.1.57" ]; then
    echo "CmsGoAgent already installed"
    echo "Installation success."
    exit 0
fi

if [ -z "${REGION_ID}" ]; then
  REGION_ID="$(wget -q --timeout=1 -t 1 -O - 'http://100.100.100.200/latest/meta-data/region-id')"
fi


if [ -d $CMS_HOME ] ; then
  if [ -f $CMS_HOME/wrapper/bin/cloudmonitor.sh ] ; then
    $CMS_HOME/wrapper/bin/cloudmonitor.sh remove;
    rm -rf $CMS_HOME;
  elif [ -f $DEST_UPDATE_FILE ]; then
    $DEST_UPDATE_FILE stop
    #$DEST_UPDATE_FILE uninstall
    ps aux | grep -v grep | grep $ELF_NAME
  fi
fi

download()
{
  if [ -z "${REGION_ID}" ]; then
    echo "networkType is classic"
    OSS_URL="http://cms-agent-cn-hangzhou.oss-cn-hangzhou-internal.aliyuncs.com/$DOWNLOAD_PATH"
  else
    echo "networkType is vpc, REGION_ID: $REGION_ID"
    if [[ "$REGION_ID" = "cn-shenzhen-finance-1" ]]; then
      OSS_URL="http://cms-download.aliyun.com/$DOWNLOAD_PATH"
      CMS_PROXY="szcmsproxy.aliyun.com:3128"
    elif [[ "$REGION_ID" = "cn-shanghai-finance-1" ]]; then
      OSS_URL="http://cms-agent-$REGION_ID.oss-$REGION_ID-pub-internal.aliyuncs.com/$DOWNLOAD_PATH"
    elif [[ "$REGION_ID" = "ap-south-1" ]]; then
      OSS_URL="http://cms-download.aliyun.com/$DOWNLOAD_PATH"
      CMS_PROXY="cmsproxy-ap-south-1.aliyuncs.com:8080"
    elif [ "$REGION_ID" = "ap-southeast-3" -o "$REGION_ID" = "me-east-1" -o "$REGION_ID" = "cn-chengdu" ]; then
      OSS_URL="http://cms-download.aliyun.com/$DOWNLOAD_PATH"
    else
      OSS_URL="http://cms-agent-$REGION_ID.oss-$REGION_ID-internal.aliyuncs.com/$DOWNLOAD_PATH"
    fi
  fi
  echo download from "$OSS_URL"
  wget -q -e "http_proxy=$CMS_PROXY" "$OSS_URL" -O "$DEST_UPDATE_FILE" -t 3 --connect-timeout=2
  if [ $? != 0 ]; then
    echo "download fail, retry..."
    CMS_PROXY="vpc-opencmsproxy.aliyun.com:8080";
    OSS_URL="http://cms-download.aliyun.com/$DOWNLOAD_PATH"
    wget -q -e "http_proxy=$CMS_PROXY" "$OSS_URL" -O "$DEST_UPDATE_FILE" -t 3 --connect-timeout=2
  fi
  if [ $? != 0 ]; then
    echo "download fail, retry..."
    CMS_PROXY="opencmsproxy.aliyun.com:8080";
    OSS_URL="http://cms-download.aliyun.com/$DOWNLOAD_PATH"
    wget -q -e "http_proxy=$CMS_PROXY" "$OSS_URL" -O "$DEST_UPDATE_FILE" -t 3 --connect-timeout=2
  fi
}

mkdir -p $CMS_HOME && \
chown -R root:root $CMS_HOME && \
download && \
chmod a+x $DEST_UPDATE_FILE
$DEST_UPDATE_FILE check
RC=$?
if [ ${RC} -ne 0 ]; then
    echo CmsGoAgent install failed, your platform is not supported
    exit ${RC}
fi

$DEST_UPDATE_FILE install >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
$DEST_UPDATE_FILE start
ps aux | grep -v grep | grep $ELF_NAME

ACT_VERSION=`$DEST_UPDATE_FILE version`
if [ -n "$ACT_VERSION" ]; then
    echo CmsGoAgent v$ACT_VERSION installed
else
    echo CmsGoAgent install failed
    exit 1
fi

Result

After the xdragon_hardware_detect_plugin monitoring plug-in is installed, you can view it in the /usr/local/xdragon_hwqc directory. You can run the aliyun_installer -d xdragon_hardware_detect_plugin command to update the plug-in, or run the aliyun_installer -u xdragon_hardware_detect_plugin command to uninstall it.

What to do next

You can call an ECS API operation to isolate damaged local disks. When damaged local disks are isolated, the corresponding ECS bare metal instances are not migrated to a different physical machine. For more information, see Overview of system events on ECS instances equipped with local disks.