On Monday, 06/01/2009 at 04:07 EDT, Lionel B Dyck <[email protected]> wrote: > If you are running Velocity's ESATCP and have their net-snmp agent > installed then you can verify that the servers are running via a 'sm > esatcp status' command or use their web interface. > > If you don't have anything like that you might check out big brother from > http://www.bb4.org/ - i've not used it with z/Linux but it should work. We > used it for monitoring a number of messaging servers running various > flavors of linux and unix.
While this sort of thing tells you that the server is up and has successfully started the snmp daemon, it doesn't tell you if the service you wanted (WebSphere, DB2, MQ, whatever) is up or not. If there's a MIB for them, then sure, use snmp. So it's good to go back and establish a clear definition of the word "up". Maybe the sysprog is responsible to see that the *server* is up, but the app folks are responsible to see that the *application* is running. Or maybe not. Some people just care that Linux started. Some care that the Application of Interest (AOI) is running. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
