On Jan 23, 2009, at 8:39 AM, thomas wrote: > I was wondering if somebody has a good suggestion to the best (and > simplest) way of monitoring if a server has booted. We have a lot of > virtual server which are so fast at booting that zenoss doesn't > notice it, but I'd like to know when a boot has occurred so I can > catch repetitive booting. > > I was considering using sysUptime gathered via SNMP, but after > having thought it over, it may not be the best way anyways. > > 99.5% of our servers are either solaris, linux or freebsd. > > Examples are more than welcome :-)
Thresholding on sysUpTime seems like a decent idea to me. Assuming you're collecting SNMP data the default of every 5 minutes you could add a threshold to create an event anytime sysUpTime is less than 45000 to be safe. _______________________________________________ zenoss-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zenoss.org/mailman/listinfo/zenoss-users
