The short answer is 'maybe'. :-)
What is it you wish to test to know if CFAS is "available". What
service does it provide that you want to measure? Is it simply that
Windows says it is running? Is it at the application level? For
example, you might wish to check "the text fetched from
http://foo.bar.com/INDEX.HTM contains the current time." If so, you
will need to look at creating a plug-in that can check that. There are
lots of nagios plugins that can do this sort of thing which is why I
pointed you in that direction. The nagios plugin interface is well
documented, even if our documentation on integrating nagios is not.
Monitoring the "count" of a process with lower threshold of 1 would
provide an event if the service were to stop. That's assuming windows
describes services via the normal Host Resources MIB (which I think it
does).
-Eric
DAVE CUSHING wrote:
Then the short answer is no? I cannot monitor a particular Wndows
Service to see if it is in a started state or not? I am particularly
interested in Cold Fusion Application Service, but an example of
monitoring the state of any Windows service would suffice.
To clarify, I am not interested in montoring a port, or cpu/memory
level. I wish to monitor the availability of a particular service. If
a nagios plug-in can accomplish this, I would be interested in learning
how, as the documentation on that is incomplete at the moment as well.
This isn't criticism by the way, I am enjoying the product, I am just
trying to get to the next level of my monitoring - it seems some people
have gotten to this point and I am trying to figure out how to get there
myself.
On Wed, Sep 6, 2006 at 2:32 PM, in message
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
zenwin uses WMI to collect information, which is helpful if you can't
install snmp- informant on all your windows machines.
However, you can get a lot of information for windows machines
without
using zenwin, especially if you have snmp- informant installed.
You can monitor processes related to your services (memory, cpu,
count).
You can monitor ports that accept connections (80, 8080, etc).
There are nagios pluggins for checking availability at the
application
level, like SMTP, HTTP.
I just heard: documentation person starts Friday. That will help.
- Eric
DAVE CUSHING wrote:
I have installed zenwin and have added snmp- informant to a number
of
Windows server and am graphing what I need to graph. (I don't
really
understand the function of the zenwin server though, so I am
probably
still not getting full functionality).
Now I would like to monitor the status of particular Windows
services
(ie. Cold Fusion, MS SQL, etc.) and be notified if they go down.
Can I do that with the present state of ZenOSS, or is that
something
that is 'coming down the pipe'?
I am excited about the product, but am a little frustrated at the
lack
of documentation on setting up some basic features such as
monitoring
particular oids, monitoring windows services, and monitoring linux
processes.
Any pointers would be appreciated.
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