Applications or appliances that observe systems and networks to find problems and notify administrators.
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monitor network packet rate per IP
my problem is that I've got a report that my IP was used in a DOS attack. Problem is that I do not know which computer is infected and the attack is not active anymore.
Is there simple Linux tool for ...
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Munin - apache_watch_ plugin, does not show any data in the graphs that shows activity for per vhosts
I am using Munin for monitoring my server.
I installed the apache_watch_ plugin so that i could see apache related activity. The graphs for apache_accesses, apache_processes and apache_volume work ...
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Zenoss: Getting SNMP stats over SSH
I have the SSH connection working. I have it successfully modeling the device (Ubuntu Server, in this case).
What I can't get to work is the SNMP portion. It sounds like I have to custom add the ...
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Server Monitoring Options [duplicate]
I'm trying to find the best way to monitor my MS SQL server. I have been using pingdom for my web server and want to look at something else. I have done a lot of googleing but they all seem to be the ...
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How to monitor Apache VirtualHost activity
I have a webserver that runs a number of virtualhost websites.
Every once in a while there will be a situation where the server load goes really high, or the network response is very slow on the ...
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Whatsup Gold add device with default status down [closed]
We are using Whatsup Gold to monitor several devices in our network like webservers, routers, switches, etc. We like to monitor a specific device that has an IP address and only comes online when the ...
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Lighttpd & Scientific Linux
Not sure if this is the best place to ask a general question ... (please feel free to delete it if it's not appropriate for this forum. or let me know if there's a more appropriate forum, thanks)
At ...
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Konica Minolta Printer MIBs?
I'm looking for a MIB for a Konica Minolta BizHub 600. The product's support page doesn't appear to have the MIBs in any section. Various combinations of search terms produce mostly marketing pages ...
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Remote disk monitoring with WMI without admin rights
I am setting up a restricted WMI group that should be able to read WMI information from my remote hosts.
I have the group set up as member of the remote DCOM and performance monitor groups. I also ...
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nagios servicedependency wildcard not expanding
to reach customer-es-prd-dobb1, the packets must traverse a (client based) vpn via the host "cust-client-vpn". The intermediary host has a check named "customer-prod-vpn" which monitors the health of ...
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Have issue with monitoring 32bit app pools running on 64bit IIS
I am performing a monitoring task on my 64bit web server which has couple of applications pools running in 32bit mode. I am using .Net CLR Memory object in perfmon to monitor them. However, my ...
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UPS monitoring for Linux?
I'm bit worried where to post this question, however, i expect that people engaged with servers should have some tip for me.
I have got this ups: http://www.fsp-europe.com/ep850.php
And since it ...
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Monitor a machine plugged on a mirroring interface
I've read that if I configure port span, I can no longer use that interface to pass normal trafic.
However, I'd like to monitor the machine plugged to that interface, with nagios..
Does anyone know ...
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Monitor traffic for each port [closed]
Is there an application that creates HTML/image (outgoing) traffic reports sorted on port for CentOS 6.x/5.x?
On this way we can monitor traffic for our customers, because they are limited to just ...
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NSClient++ FAIL on Windows 2008 R2 — PDHCollector.cpp(215) Failed to query performance counters
I am attempting to monitor windows server 2008 r2 x64 Enterprise with Nagios.
When I test/install the nsclientI get the following error:
PDHCollector.cpp(215) Failed to query performance counters: ...
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check_mk IPMI PCM sensor reading randomly fails
I use check_mk_agent for monitoring a server with IPMI and the freeipmi-tools installed.
As far as I can see, the monitoring randomly detects no value returned by the IPMI Sensor ...
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Monitorig ZFS io with Zabbix
I need to monitor per-zpool IO stats (number of reads, number of writes, size of reads, size of writes) with Zabbix. Is there a script for that?
kstat provides only agregate data (all zpools summed ...
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Is there a way to log all files that are created on a W2K8 server?
I've got a W2K8 server with some IIS apps that are creating a lot of files. I would like to monitor what files are created and how big they are. Is there a tool I could use to log all files that are ...
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Need a simple utility to report computer state back to home server [closed]
I am looking for a small Windows utility to be installed on our computers that will periodically access a web page on our server (using HTTP), to make sure that the computer is alive and also which IP ...
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motion - usb camera not working on monitoring server [closed]
I had a Debian Squeeze server running, which monitored our building with cameras. I installed a new server now with Debian Wheezy and all except on camera are working. It's a USB camera(Pixart ...
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How configure Ganglia in Unicast correctly?
I'm working with Ganglia, great tool by the way!
I'm trying to make this topology, with some nodes running centOS 6.4, centOS 5.9.
So for this I'm trying this configuration for GMetad (the rest is ...
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Transparent Bridge on Windows XP
Bascially i need to set up a configuration like the following:
http://wiki.wireshark.org/CaptureSetup/Ethernet#Capture_using_a_machine-in-the-middle
I have a computer with windows XP and 2 nics. I ...
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Monitor servers for changes made outside of automation software
The company I work for is currently investigating the deployment of an centralized automation system (like Salt or Puppet) for our servers (all Ubuntu/FreeBSD). We will probably go along with Salt, ...
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Passively monitor IO wait spike on process level
We use munin and monit to keep track of general stats about our vps, in last a couple of weeks, we have been running into issues where random IO wait spike is killing our server performance.
Since ...
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Monitor multiple webs within a server in nagios
i would like to monitor/test multiple virtual hosts in an Apache Webserver and besides, i would like that these checks appears as a one service in Nagios -> HTTP. And if one of the web/URL fails, the ...
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why is mailgraph not updating?
I just installed mailgraph on a Linux Ubuntu 10.04 box monitoring Postifix.
Everything seems to be working fine, but the graphs are not always
updating. When I refresh the web page or close the ...
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Any good apps to visualize what's happening on an iSCSI Storage network
I'm a developer/SQL type person that has inherited an iSCSI SAN/Vmware setup in the past year. HP Lefthand P4500 SAN. Single iSCSI switch - HP Procurve 2810. Dell Equallogic PS6010E 10gb SAN (not used ...
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Exclude a process from being listed in `top`
Is it possible to exclude some processes from being reported by top?
For example, I would like to exclude itself from its listing (ie, I don't want top to show in the process list).
I would also ...
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What exactly do the colors in htop status bars mean?
By default, htop shows colored status bars for processors, memory, and swap. From left to right, the bars are colored green, blue, yellow, and red depending on some thresholds.
What does it mean when ...
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munin aggregate graph problems
Munin is driving me crazy. I'm trying to get an aggregate graph working. Here is my conf file:
[Mydomain;machine-1]
address xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
use_node_name yes
[Mydomain;machine-2]
address ...
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Xymon monitoring Filesystem of ESXi fails
I have a Xymon server which monitors my ESXi servers. Now if i try to check the disk of my ESXi, it fails in the xymoncmd:
root@xymontest3:/usr/lib/xymon/server/bin# ./xymoncmd ../ext/vmtest_esxi.sh
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Jconsole over VPN
I'm trying to monitor a remote jvm using jconsole. I need to do this monitoring through an OpenVPN network which might me part of the problem. This is the network configuration:
Server A ...
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Hyperic HQ- Monitor process statistics for 50+ processes on Linux machine
Is there an easy way to get metrics on all processes that start with the letters XYZ? I have about 80 processes that I have to monitor individually that all start with the prefix XYZ.
I have created ...
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Zabbix triggers during network problems
I have a office zabbix server that is monitoring several distant servers. Most of the checks are via agents. When there are network problems in the office where zabbix server resides, I get lots of ...
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SNMP HOSTMIB.MIB not loading?
Forgive me if the answer is something glaringly obvious but I just can't seem to get access to any OIDs under the HOST branch in SNMP.
I've used an SNMP browser to inspect a few of my systems and ...
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How do I monitor CPU and Memory usage with Nagios?
Is there a plugin that does that? If yes, how do I set it up?
I have Nagios on a single server setup (nagios monitoring the box where it's hosted), so I don't need any fancy way of getting that info ...
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Server Room Temperature Monitoring - Where to stick my probes?
I have a small server room approx 7' x 12' with an A/C unit dedicated to this room that is positioned on of the short (7') sides and blows air across the room towards the other short (7') side.
The ...
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Is it possible to catch requests on barracuda load balancer?
I need to take different measures on barracuda load balancer and to trigger some actions.
For example, if the response time of 95% requests exceeds 3 seconds then an action should be taken. How can ...
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Tomcat logs web interface
I have several production machines running Java servlets on Tomcat infrastructure.
When I want to look at the logs, I have to remote access the machine with ssh, and manually grep the logs for ...
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Nagios 'exclude' directive does not exclude timeframes
I tried to set up my nagios install to check the availability of a SMTP service outside its backup hours. Unfortunately, it seems to be ignoring this configuration:
# a timeperiod to check only ...
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What Logs / Process Stats to monitor on a Ubuntu FTP server?
I am administering a server with Ubuntu Server which is running pureFTP.
So far all is well, but I would like to know what I should be monitoring so that I can spot any potential stability and ...
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Windows Performance Monitor keeps trying to add unwanted counters
I have been running a Data Collector Set for SQL Server for a week, and everything was going just fine until I tried clicking on Action -> Save Current View and now it always tries to add the ...
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Nagios + Centreon setup along with nrpe to monitor linux server
I spent almost a month trying to configure nagios + centreon with nrpe instead of snmp for monitoring the linux servers. I could see the monitoring data with just nagios and nrpe, but when I install ...
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Best way to monitor ubuntu desktop machine
I'm trying to find a simple solution to monitor all desktop machines of my network (~ 35 Ubuntu desktop). I do not want to use passive monitoring like Munin or Cacti but with an active agent on the ...
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Cacti per-process monitoring
Are there any Cacti plugins that lets you monitor per-process CPU/memory/IO, etc., similar to what Perfmon provides on Windows?
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How best to monitor and alert on the absence of an event in the logs?
With logs getting captured in syslog-ng, I'd like to be able to automatically monitor the logs and receive an alert if NO log events appear that match a certain criteria. For instance, for a ...
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Log monitoring and alert utility
Actually we use ManageEngine's Application Manager to monitor some client servers that host Oracle Databases and some JBoss applications. Unfortunately App Manager doesn't work so fast as i wish so i ...
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Monitoring the stability of an internet connection
I relatively recently signed up with a new ISP and I have about 2 weeks to determine if their uptime is sufficient for running a server. My initial plan was to install Nagios on an old laptop and ...
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How to mark every deploy in munin?
Anyone knows if it's possible to mark every deploy with a red vertical line in munin graphs? It will be great to debug possible performance holes in the code.
Thanks in advance!
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How can i monitor internet traffic in my LAN?
I have a centOS box set up as a gateway with IPTables (among many things such as proxy cache using Squid). My LAN consists of ~30 machines, all connect to the internet through the gateway's eth0 ...
