I was hoping that others could help me find a strategy to monitor some Unix/Linux/Oracle boxes in our enterprise.
The situation is this: We want to monitor various database server functions such as table size, database availability, errors, etc. I am told by our DB admin, who is a fairly gifted programmer, that he can monitor all of these things with Oracle Enterprise Manager and various homebuilt scripts. The problem is that we do not want to duplicate our alerting and presentation (WUG WWW server) infrastructure. The catch is that we want WUG to do all of the alerting and map presentation for these things. I was hoping that he could simply use the Oracle MIB/OIDs for this, but apparently they are rather limited. The ideal solution (at least for a non-programmer like me) would be a piece of software that would allow him to have a custom SNMP agent on his boxes that would allow his scripts to manipulate the custom agents OIDs to represent various items that he is monitoring. This would allow us platform transparency and let us leverage our existing WUG monitoring infrastructure. It would also allow the DB admin to effectively program the OIDs to allow us to monitor whatever he wants to monitor and possibly to roll-up some of the OIDs into general health status OIDs (similar to HP Insight Manager and Dell OpenManage OIDs). Is anyone else doing this, or do you have any suggestions? Thanks for your time. Dan . . . Dan Arsenault Network Administrator Siemens VDO Automotive Inc. 700 Park Avenue East Chatham, Ontario, Canada Voice: 519-436-3839 Fax: 519-436-3641 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The message is intended only for the use of the intended recipient(s). It is confidential and may also be privileged and/or exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient(s), you are hereby notified that any review, retransmission, conversion to hard copy, copying, circulation or other use of this message is strictly prohibited and may be illegal. If you are not the intended recipient(s), or have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by return E-mail and delete this message. Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/whatsup_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
