> > Anyone using this to monitor Linux under VM on a large scale basis? > > Seems like a pretty heavy agent (java based) memory wise.
It is a 892 pound leviathan (I won't recap the long discussion I had with the Director development team about *why* this was bad). If you have heavy investment in Director on Intel or PPC and you're using Tivoli Provisioning Mgr or Intelligent Orchestrator it may make sense to integrate with the automated provisioning stuff, but the footprint of the agent is *enormous* for simple health-check monitoring. There is also a lot of investment in setup time. If you plan to use other portions of Virtualization Engine (like VE Console, EWLM or RDS) there are the integration benefits into the provisioning stream that might make it worth it, but you'd have to have a LOT of IBM middleware investment to make it worth the footprint. I would second Rich's recommendation for Hobbit or Nagios for simple monitoring. Both are lightweight, have good usable predefined tests for common applications, can handle IBM and non-IBM systems w/o problems, and allow monitoring both network and system infrastructure from one console w/o spending a arm, leg and several present and future offspring to get it up and integrated. Both Hobbit and Nagios are similar in concept, and are pretty easy to set up -- the downside to them is that documentation is a little sparse for both, so if you're not familiar with setting up system management tools like OpenView or Netview, you may have a little trouble getting started. I have a "getting started" doc for Nagios that I'd be willing to share if anyone wants it. -- db ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
