Monitoring systems observe network infrastucture, machines and services through either an agent installed on the target machine, or through a scan. These agents or scans can reveal problems with the machines, services or network. When such a problem is found, an administrator can be notified, ...
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Disk Monitoring with OpenNMS
I'm sure this has been asked before (and actually all over the net) but I'm scratching my head a little over this. OpenNMS is installed on my 2008R2 server and is picking up my nodes fine (detecting ...
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Filter Zenoss Alerting Rules for certain Data Source only (or certain Data sources active only at a given time)
We're working to monitor a couple of services with Zenoss over SNMP and have implemented the SNMP part.
We have configured data sources (to various OIDs) and thresholds for these values and hosts to ...
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Monitoring system [closed]
I need to monitor a vast range of devices in network: network devices chassis, servers, hard disks. What monitoring system can you suggest?
There are some requirements (not requirements, but it will ...
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Nagios (Return code of 141 is out of bounds) on random services
We have had Nagios running on one of our servers with out any problems for a while but lately we get (Return code of 141 is out of bounds).
The load on the server raised because we gone online with ...
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What is a good live request monitor for Apache httpd?
I have used SeeFusion to monitor ColdFusion requests. Is there a similar tool that would allow me to monitor Apache httpd requests in real time? We have a server that was fast and responsive for ...
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Is there a Windows equivalent of Unix 'CPU steal time'?
In order to assess performance monitoring accuracy on virtualization platforms, the CPU steal time has become an increasingly relevant metric - see EC2 monitoring: the case of stolen CPU for an ...
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Best Practices for monitoring email server? [closed]
We manage about 50 exchange servers. What do you guys use to monitor that the server is working properly (email flow, latency, etc.)?
Tips? suggestions?
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What Server Monitoring Software works with csf/lfd/iptables?
Hi I am looking for web based monitor software that monitors Config Server Firewall and works on Debian.
Similar to how http://snorby.org/ works with snort?
Does anyone know if there is such a ...
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Monitor Size of the CAM Table on a Cisco Switch
We noticed some stray packets from our switch going out ports they should not have.
After clearing the cam table with clear mac address-table the problem seems to have gone away. Our best theory at ...
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How to test that an exported resource in puppet exists after collecting?
I want to create a nagios_hostgroup if some hosts exists. For creating hosts in nagios I am using exported resources which I collect on the monitoring server.
How can I test that a exported ...
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Which process is eating my hard drives?
Today, after I logged in with ssh, I see a lot of lag on my FreeBSD server.
Something is eating 100% of my both hard drives (RAID1 with gmirror).
systat -vmstat
5 users Load 0,06 0,16 ...
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Railo + JavaMelody: SQL statistics empty
I have javamelody successfully running on my railo server, whose websites use data sources on MySQL.
Anyway, my SQL statistics section remains empty!
How can I make the right configuration / debug ...
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Amazon EC2 Elastic Load Balancing - strategy for zero downtime server restart
I have 5 web servers (Apache/mod_perl) behind Amazon EC2 Elastic Load Balancing, when I deploy codes to the web servers, I am doing this..
For each machine, shutdown the Apache
Update the code
Start ...
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How can I manage a network monitoring for different users and teams? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
What free network monitoring tools would support multiple users?
I a looking for a way of having monitoring a set of servers belonging to different people or teams.
I ...
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What free network monitoring tools would support multiple users? [closed]
The common solution is to use nagios but I nagios cannot be hosted and maintained by IT while allowing the different teams to manager their own groups of servers and add custom verifications.
While I ...
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ps shows that migration/* processes consume a lot of CPU, but top keep silence about them
here is the result of ps command, shown only first 10 lines
ps aufx | head
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
root 2 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S ...
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Monitoring memory (sharedm buffered, cached) for Xserve
I am trying to monitor detailed memory useage over time for MacOSX /Xserver. NetSNMP version 5.4.2.1 on MacOS 10.6 does not report the following mibs
oid=".1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.4.11" ...
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Program to snapshot changes made during an install?
Question
Is there a decently-priced (free preferred) tool that will allow me to see all changes made to a system (disk, registry, etc.) during the process of an install?
Background
I would like to ...
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How do you ensure your Rails server running
What is common approach to make sure that Rails server is auto-restarted after a serious crash, or a process kill? How do you deal with hanging processes? I have nginx and thin running on my ...
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Server Monitoring: Collect data on Windows machine [closed]
Here's the situation: three servers need to be monitored, all data should be accessible on Windows machine.
Standard sensors need to be monitored:
- cpu usage
- mem usage
- disk usage
I'm out of ...
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Ping/traceroute tool for OSX
Any suggestions for a network monitoring tool for OS X that can do the same functionality like Axence Nettools.
Basically, I want to be able to track ping history and view them as a report. Other ...
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xymon configuration
I'm still beginner with linux and I really need help.
On my local machine that is in LAN, I have installed xymon-4.3.7.
When I type in browser http://localhost.localdomain/xymon/xymon.html it appears ...
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Starting Automatically Tomcat 7 Monitor Windows 7 / Vista
Anybody knows how is possible to start automatically Tomcat's Monitor? Tomcatw.exe with the service's Tomcat? I tried but, it does not start.
I was trying to install like windows Services manually, ...
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What network monitoring tools are available for free with those requirement? [closed]
I have been using PRTG free version to monitor my network (Netflow V9, SNMP OID, Ping latency).
It works perfectly but it is only limited to 10 sensors.
So I would like to know if there are any free ...
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Monitoring pacemaker
How do you monitor if pacemaker is still working? If all nodes are online and not in a state of standby or even offline/down?
Monitoring the services isn't the problem, this can be done directly. But ...
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SNMP agent collecting information [closed]
I understand SNMP agent on a server collects information such as CPU, Memory, Network, IO stat ... information. How to I know what exactly information being collecting on a linux server by SNMP ...
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Django: Nginx with wsgi or uwsgi
Which one has better performance, stability? Which monitoring tool should also be the best choice ? Thanks for your answers!
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OpenNMS Vs Nagios [closed]
I'm new to Network and Monitoring side and I've to work on either OpenNMS or Nagios.
I want to know what are the main differences of these two Systems apart from being OpenSource and Licensed. Which ...
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Graphite Clustered Webapp - Not Sharing Data
I have Graphite setup on three instances on EC2:
carbon-relay - relay1.graphite.prod.example.ec2
carbon-cache + webapp - cache3.graphite.prod.example.ec2
carbon-cache + webapp - ...
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Monitoring various Nagios? Alternative to Coffeesaint
In our company, we have one nagios for each of our clients, to offer them a 24x7 monitoring service. Currently, we are using Coffeesaint to have a "central monitoring display" were all alarms about ...
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How to specify specific disk order in nmon for linux?
I'm using nmon in interactive mode for monitoring disk activity on many servers, each with a several hard drives. The order in which nmon displays harddrives varies between different servers, and I ...
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Cisco Routers charateristics
I use program called PRTG for monitoring Cisco routers. On each Cisco device I made an SNMP setup: snmp-server community public. So it means that NMS which will make an SNMP request to this device ...
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Managing e-mail and spam?
Running a CPanel server and just wondering what would be the best way to monitor incoming and outgoing e-mail to check for spam and other related attacks.
Currently, I am using exim
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Rackspace cloud recomendations
What tools do you use to help you manage your cloud,
specially with rackspace cloud?
Things like Provisioning, Monitoring, Autoscaling, Alerting etc...
I'm just a developer, and for a little while ...
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`echo ::memstat | mdb -k` very slow on certain machines
As stated in the title, when I run echo ::memstat | mdb -k on certain machines, it is very slow. My munin graphs show a vastly increased CPU load when I run this regularly. I intend to use ::memstat ...
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active directory GPO - management and reporting tools
Currently, I am using Ecora Auditor. What are some alternative tools that will allow me to scan AD and pull all sorts of reports such as all GPO policies?
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Monitor commands issued by some user
I will need to give root password to my server to someone who will help me setup my mailserver. Now, since this will be a freelancer I'm kind of worried he may do some damage, so I'm wondering if ...
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Gaps in Windows graphs in Cacti
Why would I'd be getting gaps like this in graphs coming from Windows hosts?
This problem seems to happen quite regularly on graphs coming from Windows hosts. The graph template for the graph above ...
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Monitoring CPU, Mem, disk, on a single remote server
I've been looking for a simple starter solution for monitoring my [currently] single server hosted solution. Other than Nagios and similar, are there other good (simple) solutions people are using?
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How to check if a service (that listens on given port) is up & working?
OK, so lets say I have a Nagios setup that monitors different services using the so-called nagios-plugins.
What would be the best practive for my nagios plugin (probably written in python) to ...
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Using sar to calculate monthly averages
I have sar enabled and I have changed the HISTORY to 30 days in /usr/lib64/sa/sa2
I have all the files generated under /var/log/sa/ . I can calculate daily averages by
sar -q -f /var/log/sa/sa12 | ...
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Xymon Installation Confusion
I'm trying to get Xymon running and I'm running into trouble. Here's the specifics:
VMWare ESXi 5.0
Ubuntu 10.04 x64, clean install
Very basic Xymon install--nothing crazy or complicated.
When I ...
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frequent “SNMP error” with Cacti
When adding new devices to my Cacti instance, I get frequent "SNMP error" messages in the device screen. But the error is not consistent, not even for the same device. Here's what I already have ...
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Monitoring Dell/HP Servers Running ESXi (Free)
What are you all doing to monitor ESXi servers that run the free edition? With the lack of SNMP support, it seems fairly limited to me. What'd I'd like to be able to do is get some type of alert when ...
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how to set up lots of Cacti devices and graphs?
I have many virtual machines that I would like to monitor with Cacti.
Is there a script so that I can easily create about 100 entries? I am tired of repeating the same mouse clicks over and over ...
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Record SSH / Terminal into video?
If someone access to the server via Putty (SSH) or terminal - I want to record everything what they can see on the screen and what they have typed into video..
What is the solution to this, is there ...
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How do I realert Scom Monitors?
There's a "rule of monitors" that a user of scom might be aware of. If you have an alert that was generated by a monitor (as opposed to a rule that generates alerts) do not close it and let it close ...
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How should I monitor memory usage/performance in SunOS/Solaris?
Last week we decided to add some SunOS (uname -a = SunOS bbs-sam-belair 5.10 Generic_127128-11 i86pc i386 i86pc) machines into our running munin instance. First off, the machines are pre-configured ...
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Monitor Nginx response time with munin
Well, nginx is configured to put $request_time in it's access logs. Now I need to monitor this parameter with munin.
Is there any existing plugin to do this?
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What prevents banks from creating money in their database? [closed]
I was wondering: If banks store all the account balances in a database, what keeps them from going into said database and "creating" money by changing the data (Replacing 10 000 $ with 100 000 $ is ...
