There are a handful of ways you can go about monitoring the health of your systems. Depending on the system in question you can either use lm-sensors if lm-sensors supports the chips in your system, you can use ssh to probe an application on the system, and you can get a little more inventive (custom mibs, mibs that support the ibm stuff etc).
I have a number of different systems, so far I've only configured lm-sensors monitoring. I'll be doing the IBM stuff at some point too, but i'll just talk about the lm-sensors for now. With lm-sensors the first thing you need to do is to set it up. You can apt-get the package (its part of etch) and then you'll need to configure it. Configuration may require the addition of drivers to support the chipset in your servers (in my case I need i2c drivers and winbond drivers). Anyhow, get that all setup and reporting numbers that work for you. Then you just need to grab the OID's for your sensors and create a new template in zenoss. lmSensors-MIB comes with the debian net-snmp packages, so you don't need to do anything wild to get the mib setup. I haven't found good docs for that mib, but if you play with snmpwalk you should find your way to the information you want. Grab the OIDs you want, add data points to the template, and you can go ahead and add graphs and thresholds if you want. You can start with OID: 1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.13.16 just snmpwalk that and you'll see a good amount of information offered by the MIB. If you have machines with different chipsets then this information will be different per machine. I went up and setup special classes for my hardware to organize that. Anyhow, there are a number of other ways to grab the info, that's just how i do it. I think you can setup snmptraps too if that's what you are into. You can also write a nagios style plugin and grab info using ssh if you have some other app that gets info for you. HTH, c ------------------------ Carl Van Arsdall -------------------- m2f -------------------- Read this topic online here: http://community.zenoss.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=10404#10404 -------------------- m2f -------------------- _______________________________________________ zenoss-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zenoss.org/mailman/listinfo/zenoss-users
