Ditto to what Jeff said. Nagios is extremely flexible. I use it to monitor everything from user count, CPU usage, and partition space on the UV server to fan, temperature, and power supply status on Cisco routers and HP switches. Nagios is free and there are a whole host of free, custom-made plugins available for monitoring a wide array of devices. You can also alert different people via various means depending on the specific service being monitored and the severity of the problem. Eg: if a server is down, you might want a page or SMS message 24x7, but if new Windows server updates are available, you might just want an email once a week during business hours. If you run Nagios on CentOS (also free), the only investment is your time. These links are a good starting point:
http://www.nagios.org/ http://exchange.nagios.org/ Go here for installation instructions specific to CentOS: http://docs.cslabs.clarkson.edu/wiki/Install_Nagios_on_CentOS_5 There is a free add-on available called Pnp4Nagios that can produce nice graphs on the fly of things like disk space and CPU usage over various time periods: http://docs.pnp4nagios.org/pnp-0.6/start And my favorite free add-on is a tool called NagVis that produces a real-time graphical map of your entire network: http://www.nagvis.org/ Healthy devices are green, ones with warning-level problems are yellow, and anything critical is red. I use a Window 7 active desktop gadget to keep it visible at all times. It also produces a buzzer sound through the PC speakers when something goes critical. -John -----Original Message----- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Schasny Sent: Friday, April 13, 2012 10:19 AM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] Monitoring a U2 server? I have used Nagios for monitoring systems.networks very successfully. You can monitor your entire network from a single point and go from things as simple as 'is this thing pingable' to has the disk space on drive X changed by more than 10%' or "Are the following list of services available on this machine". Oh, and did I mention it's free. Rutherford, Marc wrote: > I have a request to help setup a monitoring process for Unidata on HP-UX. So far the outside tools have not been specified, but will most likely be MS Windows based. > > I am looking for any examples/documentation on what can be done to provide visibility into system status. Has anyone done something similar before? What Unidata and/or HP manuals should I look for? > > Marc Rutherford > Principal Programmer Analyst > Advanced Bionics LLC > 661) 362 1754 > > _______________________________________________ > U2-Users mailing list > U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org > http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users > > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jeff Schasny - Denver, Co, USA jschasny at gmail dot com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
