Introduction

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The following video explains how to monitor Docker:

The following sections provide an overview of the Docker platform and the Docker PowerPack:

What Does the Docker PowerPack Monitor?

The Docker PowerPack includes:

  • An example Basic/Snippet Credential and an example SSH/Key Credential for discovering Docker devices

  • Dynamic Applications and Run Book Actions to discover, model, and monitor the following Docker component devices:
  • Hosts

  • Containers
  • Swarms
  • Stacks
  • Services
  • Device Classes for each type of Docker component device SL1 monitors
  • Event Policies that are triggered when Docker component devices meet certain status criteria

Installing the Docker PowerPack

Before completing the steps in this section, you must import and install the latest version of the Docker PowerPack.

By default, installing a new version of a PowerPack overwrites all content from a previous version of that PowerPack that has already been installed on the target system. You can use the Enable Selective PowerPack Field Protection setting in the Behavior Settings page (System > Settings > Behavior) to prevent new PowerPacks from overwriting local changes for some commonly customized fields. (For more information, see the section on Global Settings.)

The minimum required MySQL version is 5.6.0.

To download and install the PowerPack:

  1. Search for and download the PowerPack from the PowerPacks page (Product Downloads > PowerPacks & SyncPacks) at the ScienceLogic Support Site.
  2. In SL1, go to the PowerPacks page (System > Manage > PowerPacks).
  3. Click the Actions button and choose Import PowerPack. The Import PowerPack dialog box appears.
  4. Click [Browse] and navigate to the PowerPack file from step 1.
  5. Select the PowerPack file and click Import. The PowerPack Installer modal displays a list of the PowerPack contents.
  6. Click Install. The PowerPack is added to the PowerPacks page.

If you exit the PowerPack Installer modal without installing the imported PowerPack, the imported PowerPack will not appear in the PowerPacks page. However, the imported PowerPack will appear in the Imported PowerPacks modal. This page appears when you click the Actions menu and select Install PowerPack.