I guess that whole idea of multiple unconnected people working on the same problem is true.... :)
I just submitted a NetWare 6.5 ZenPack to Matt today but I went a different route on the File System modeling than you did (using the Novell-specific filesystem OIDs instead of the Host-Resources generic ones). I have a lot of cluster servers and I didn't want the server name included with the volume name for each filesystem/volume datapoint and I also wanted to be able to display purgeable data on the volume. But using the Novell OID's means I have to run a shell script to calculate the usedBlocks (based on the AIX ZenPack). I don't know that this is the best way, but I was able to make it work.....but I'm not a programmer in any sense, I looked at lots of examples from the NetApp and HP-UX and AIX ZenPacks. My ZenPack uses SNMP, the in-the-box NetWare Management Agent that loads by default for instrumentation, and also MRTGEXT.NLM loaded on the server. I use a perl script for a lot of the OS and Memory stats via zencommand instead of using the Nagios chk_nwstat command so that I can pull a lot more statistics on each connection instead of one value at a time....I was trying to speed up data collection since I have 200+ NetWare servers. This ZenPack is probably overkill actually, I am grabbing a lot of extra info (memory listings from NRM, buffer sizes, etc.). I kind of got caught up in seeing what I could do with it. Of course all of this will have to be rethought when Zenoss 2.4 comes out if the improvements in the SSH data collection can be leveraged with direct lookups to MRTGEXT on port 9999 (which would be a lot faster than dumping through a perl script). I was trying to get that working in the existing version but it didn't work like I was hoping. I'm slowly starting to work on a NetWare Cluster ZenPack next (while continuing to tweak this one). I am hoping to leverage some of the work from the community VMWare ESX ZenPack but we'll see. This is sort of a "free time" activity for me at this point, we are still evaluating Zenoss to replace HPSIM. -Eric Feldman -------------------- m2f -------------------- Read this topic online here: http://forums.zenoss.com/viewtopic.php?p=32115#32115 -------------------- m2f -------------------- _______________________________________________ zenoss-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zenoss.org/mailman/listinfo/zenoss-users
