BigBrother and its follow-on Hobbit(now named Xymon) have tests for SSL certificate expiration, Telnet, FTP, HTTP and other Port availability. There are also capabilities for external scripts on both client and server. I have not run the server part on zSeries yet, but it does run. I have used the client (bigbrother and hobbit 4.2) on Turbolinux, RedHat and SLES. It works very well.
And as an added bonus, you can even run a Hobbit/Xymon client in a CMS virtual machine to report your host status to the same Hobbit/Xymon server and display the host and guest status all on one webpage. /Tom Kern Alan Altmark wrote: > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
