Sure Micheal , I will follow the steps that you have mentioned. In case
if i need support i will definitely get the support from this mailing list.
Thanks
Jatin
On 3/30/2010 10:54 PM, PEOPLES, MICHAEL P (ATTSI) wrote:
> If there's something you didn't understand, let me know. There are lots
> of things I don't understand about SNMP, and it's frustrating when I'm
> offered superficial or confusing advice.
>
> I'm happy to share my limited, hard-won experience with you.
>
> As an experiment, do the following:
>
> - Make a backup copy of your snmpd.conf file.
> - Write a script that will produce the thread count for some process.
> - Insert the following line into your snmpd.conf file (the script
> reference is just an example):
>
> exec .1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.250.1.1 threadCount
> /usr/local/bin/threadCount.ksh
>
> You should replace "/usr/local/bin/threadCount.ksh"
> - Restart the snmp agent on the system
> - From your monitoring system, or any other system that can make an
> snmpget poll to the system, issue the following command:
>
> snmpget -c public -v 2c myhost.me.com
> .1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.250.1.1.101.1
>
> In the example above, you will need to check and/or replace the
> community string "public", version "2c", and host "myhost.me.com".
> Let's say the process you check has 8 threads. If you issue the command
> above, this is what you would get:
>
> UCD-SNMP::ucdavis.250.1.1.101.1 = STRING: "8"
>
> You can parse this output or add options to the snmpget command to get
> less text. For example, if you wanted to assign the number of threads
> to a particular variable at the command line, the following would do it:
>
> threadCount=`snmpget -c public -v 2c myhost.me.com
> .1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.250.1.1.101.1 | awk '{printf("%s\n", $NF)}' | sed
> 's/"//g'`
>
> So, if you echoed $threadCount, the command line would display 8.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Michael Peoples
> Senior Systems Manager
> AT&T - ATTSI
> Office: 614-789-8559
> Cell: 614-886-0923
> FAX: 614-789-8975
> [email protected]
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jatin [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2010 11:47 AM
> To: PEOPLES, MICHAEL P (ATTSI)
> Cc: Jatin Davey; Dave Shield; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Thread Usage of a specific process
>
> Thanks Micheal , Appreciate your help.
>
> I would not say that i understood all the things that you have
> mentioned. I will work on the things that you have mentioned and will
> probably get back to the mailing list for more help. This reply
> certainly gives me the direction in which i have move forward to achieve
>
> what i want.
>
> Thanks
> Jatin
>
> PEOPLES, MICHAEL P (ATTSI) wrote:
>
>> Jatin,
>>
>> Consider using the SNMP agent extensions. These extensions, amongst
>> other things, allow you reference the output of a script through a
>> user-defined OID.
>>
>> These extensions are placed in the snmpd.conf file. For example:
>>
>> extend .1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.250.1.1 httpdThreadCount
>> /usr/local/bin/countHttpdThreads.ksh
>>
>> Then you need to write a small script to output that number. For
>> Solaris, you might issue the following:
>>
>> ps -efL | grep automountd | tr -s ' ' | sed 's/^ //' | cut -d' ' -f4
>>
>> If there were multiple automountd processes, you would have to sum the
>> results. Alternately, if you have a specific PID, then you could
>> replace the above with:
>>
>> ps -fL -p | tr -s ' ' | sed 's/^ //' | cut -d' ' -f4
>>
>> No matter which approach you take, your script should print out a
>>
> single
>
>> number. Any program receiving it will consider that output to be a
>> string, versus an integer or gauge.
>>
>> To get the value from the above OID, you would issue the following
>> (example):
>>
>> snmpget -c public -v 2c myhost.me.com .1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.250.1.1.101.1
>>
>> Be sure to restart the agent after making the change. Also, I found
>> that the "extend" directive doesn't work on the Net-SNMP agent shipped
>> with Solaris 10 (agent version 5.0.9). You can replace "extend" with
>> "exec", although the latter is being deprecated.
>>
>> This method is an easy way to gain SNMP access to data not supported
>>
> in
>
>> traditional MIB's. The down side is that unless you can figure out a
>> way to mimic the table structure of a compiled MIB, every process you
>> wish to monitor will require a separate OID. You can mitigate some of
>> the work by creating a script that allows you to pass a parameter to
>>
> in
>
>> on the command line. Example:
>>
>> extend .1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.250.1.1 httpdThreadCount
>> /usr/local/bin/countThreads.ksh httpd
>> extend .1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.250.1.2 automountdThreadCount
>> /usr/local/bin/countThreads.ksh automountd
>> extend .1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.250.1.3 statdThreadCount
>> /usr/local/bin/countThreads.ksh statd
>>
>> If you walk the OID (.1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.250.1), you'll get a feel for
>>
> how
>
>> the agent handles extensions.
>>
>> Good luck.
>>
>> Michael Peoples
>> Senior Systems Manager
>> AT&T - ATTSI
>> Office: 614-789-8559
>> Cell: 614-886-0923
>> FAX: 614-789-8975
>> [email protected]
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jatin Davey [mailto:[email protected]]
>> Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2010 3:46 AM
>> To: Dave Shield
>> Cc: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: Thread Usage of a specific process
>>
>> Thanks Dave.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Jatin
>>
>> On 3/30/2010 12:39 PM, Dave Shield wrote:
>>
>>
>>> On 30 March 2010 07:45, Jatin Davey<[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Is there a MIB parameter that i can use to monitor the "threads
>>>>
>>>>
>> usage"
>>
>>
>>>> by a specific process.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> No
>>>
>>> Dave
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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