Instrumentation refers to programs that are deployed to a managed node. The programs are scripts or executables that can be used by tools, automatic or operator-initiated commands, or policies. HPOM provides some instrumentation for UNIX nodes, and that some policies and tools will not function until you deploy instrumentation to those nodes.
If you develop policies that require custom instrumentation, you can associate the policies and instrumentation using categories. This ensures that the management server automatically deploys the instrumentation when it deploys the policy. You can also deploy categories of instrumentation independently from policies. In addition, you can redeploy policies and instrumentation that already exist on a node to ensure their integrity.
You store instrumentation in folders on the management server, ready for deployment to nodes. HPOM version 8.10 introduces a different structure for instrumentation folders. If you upgraded from OVO 7.50 you could still have your own custom instrumentation in folders that follow the deprecated structure. You may need to migrate this instrumentation to the new folder structure, particularly if you want to deploy it to nodes that have the HTTPS agent.
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