newrelic-unix-plugin

New Relic Plugin for monitoring Unix (AIX, BSD, Linux, Solaris) systems

Installation & Usage

1. Download ZIP containing latest JAR: https://github.com/sschwartzman/newrelic-unix-plugin/archive/master.zip
2. Unzip on Unix server that you want to monitor
3. Copy config/template_newrelic.properties to config/newrelic.properties
4. Copy config/template_logging.properties to config/logging.properties
5. Edit config/newrelic.properties, set your license key

• License key can be found in New Relic UI, on 'Account settings' page

6. Copy the version of config/unixplugin.config.[OS] to config/unixplugin.config, for example config/unixplugin.config.aix for AIX.
7. (Optional) Edit config/unixplugin.config to set which monitors will be checked (i.e. df, vmstat, iostat)

• All current possibilities for each OS are found in the config/unixplugin.config.[OS] files.

8. Edit startPlugin.sh and set PLUGIN_JAVA_HOME to location of Java on your server.
9. Run startPlugin.sh
10. Check plugin.log for errors
11. Check New Relic UI for the "Unix" plugin in left-hand column. Click on it, your instance should appear in the subsequent list.