Questions regarding system monitoring - Nagios, Icinga, Spiceworks, Munin, Zabbix and more.
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How to listen ctrl+s system call in linux? [closed]
I have one excel file and I want to listen any changes made in it. When ever any changes take place and user place ctrl+s button, changes should be recorded to some log file with timestamp.
I tried ...
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How to user monit to count the number of instances of a process
Is it possible to use monit to count the number of instances of a process (in my case Celery) and take an action accordingly.
For example if there are 4 instances of celery daemon, then take action
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monitor bandwidth usage per application or IP
i want to monitor the bandwidth usage per application or per IP, currently im using wireshark to do the work, but are there any software dedicated just for this type of job?
thanks
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Load average is greater than the number of EC2 Compute Units
On an EC2 m1.large, with an AVG CPU Utilization graph such as this:
how is is possible that the load average is greater than the number of EC2 Compute Units (4) ?
cat /proc/loadavg
5.78 5.57 5.44 ...
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Windows Services: How to schedule and monitor them?
We have about a dozen Windows Services, both in-house developed and third-party products, and have the following requirements for managing them:
Start/Stop/Bounce a given service at scheduled times ...
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Monitoring memory of AIX 5.3 LPARs
I'm currently administrating an IBM Power 740 server via an HMC. We have four LPARs running, two VIOS LPARs, one application LPAR and one database LPAR. We have implemented lpar2rrd to monitor CPU ...
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Recommendations on monitoring system(s) [closed]
Was hoping you might have insight into this. I am looking at different monitoring options.
My goals:
Cover the main bases (see items I need monitored below)
Multiple layers (high level, pretty ...
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What are best monitoring tool customizable for cluster / distributed system? [closed]
I am working on a system having multiple servers. I am interested in monitoring some server specific data like CPU/memory usage, disk/filesystem usage, network traffic, system load etc. and some other ...
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monitor pfSense with nagios
I have pFsense machine and one nagios(NagiosXI) installed machine. On pfSense machine DHCP server is running.
i want to monitor pfSense i.e DHCP status, interface through nagios using SNMP.
I have ...
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Using Nagios With RKhunter
I have installed rkhunter and would like the rootkit checks to be done automatically with alerts. How would i go about integrating RKhunter with nagios?
One scenario would be if a root kit is found, i ...
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I am looking for a tool to measure or detect “unresponsiveness” of a desktop PC
I have a client that provides some server systems to a hospital, and a support ticket was raised that the desktop application was hanging waiting for the server. We did some extensive testing and its ...
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16TB Volumes and SNMP On Windows
As volumes larger than 16TB became more common, it was recognized that the 32 bit value used to report disk size and usage within the standard "HOST-RESOURCES" MIB in SNMP was not large enough to ...
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In Icinga (Nagios), how do I configure hosts with multiple IPs?
I'm setting up Icinga (Nagios fork) and I have some machines with multiple interfaces. Some services are only listening on one of them and to check them correctly, I like to know if it's possible to ...
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Load threshold on vps [closed]
I have a vps and 'cat /proc/cpuinfo' shows it has 4 cpus/cores. So what's the load threshold, are there any differences between maintaining a vps and a real box?
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Distributed Logging System [closed]
I am looking for a log processing server/software that is capable to do the following:
Allow configuration of different types/clases of logs.
Accept log messages via API. Log messages will comes ...
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How to monitor power supply status using ipmitool on Linux/Solaris?
ipmitool differs a lot in Solaris and Linux. How can I use ipmitool in these servers (on Sun, IBM and other hardwares) to detect the power supply status?
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gnome system monitor save timeline
Im using gnome system monitor and I like the graphic it shows. The thing is that I would like to record that graphic for about an hour or maybe a day so I have a complete view of how my system ...
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Alternative to etsy/statsd
Is there any alternative to etsy's statsd? Maybe even a complete dashboard-like solution? My research only found proprietary SaaS solutions.
For those who do not know: statsd is a deamon which ...
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MRTG does not give precise value or converts wrong?
By example:
I have SNMP response value 59757296, passed to MRTG via conf ("business as usual").
The value is in bytes (I checked specs of the target device plus web interface of device confirms).
In ...
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Full status information in Nagios email notification?
I have set up Nagios to monitor my servers and I have written a few custion checks.
When I get a notification email, I only get the first line of the status information and I have to use the web ...
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Process trace tool for windows
Process Explorer can show currently running processes and also can show the command line each process was started with. Is there a tool that can capture a trace of processes that were started and ...
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Hyper-Threading & htop/system-monitor
I'm running a large set of simulations on a quad-core Xenon E5520 with Hyper-Threading enabled. My software automatically detects 8 (virtual) cores and launches 8 simulations to run in parallel. ...
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Best way to monitor host [closed]
I have just set up a host which receives messages from 300b to 1500b (wrapped stx etx) and replies with the same.
It works fine, but sometimes it receives junk data. Is there a way to monitor this ...
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Can't get Monit to work
I am trying to configure Monit on my local machine to get a taste at how it works, but I have some issues.
What I am trying to do is to get any evidence that Monit is up and running correctly and is ...
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user management for host monitoring with ninja
I need some help with ninja for host monitoring(http://www.op5.org/community/plugin-inventory/op5-projects/ninja). Sorry for this long description but I hope this will help you to help me better.
We ...
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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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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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Tool to monitor file size, file existence, parse xml, etc
I'm trying to find some tool that helps me monitor several things. What are some requirements:
Shows results on a web page.
Checks existence of files/folders
Checks sizes of files/folders
Can parse ...
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What software can I use for datacenter hardware monitoring? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What tool do you use to monitor your servers?
We've got a mix of Dell and HP servers in a colo and I'd like to have a hardware monitor so that we know about failed ...
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Contact group for alerting after one hour in Nagios / OMD
I am trying to find a solution for the scenario below.
I have a few hundred services in a Nagios (OMD install with check_mk and other delicious stuff) and they are defined as different service types ...
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IBM ServeRAID: how to use email alerts?
I just installed a brand old IBM server with a ServeRAID 4Lx card.
I installed the driver, and the ServeRAID manager software v9.30.
Everyting works as expected.
My problem is:
Yesterday, when ...
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Is there a way to run top as a daemon to gather historical process data?
I am aware that I can write a cron job that will run top in batch mode and write the output to a file but I am looking for something more elegant than that. Also I am aware of sysstat (sar) but I am ...
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Green-IT: How do you deal with poweroff systems in your system monitoring?
Many of you probably have completed or are contemplating Green-IT projects with the goal to power off idle or unneeded systems when demand for computer resources is low:
How you did handle this ...
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Custom checks across servers and custom applications
I'm half expecting the answer to this is Nagios, but I just wanted to check against certain specific requirements we have with our infrastructure and custom applications.
We need to monitor for ...
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Intermittent munin-cron error “There is nothing to do here, since there are no nodes with any plugins”
We've installed munin monitoring on one of our servers. Generally it seems to be working well but occasionally, 4 times in 2 months to be exact, munin-cron has generated the following error:
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Software for monitoring many sites [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What tool do you use to monitor your servers?
Can anyone recommend a website monitoring service?
My company builds and maintains sites for our clients. On any given ...
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Hiding hosts in Nagios
I would like to monitor a few hundred hosts using Nagios, yet I only want the switch fabric to show up in the statusmap.cgi. Is there a way to prevent a host from showing up in the status map, yet ...
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IBM x3500 Server managament/monitoring tool
I took over monitoring an older IBM x3500 7977 server and i don't have much knowledge of IBM servers.
I'm looking for the equivalent of Dell Server Administrator from IBM, just to monitor and alert on ...
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Server performance and disk usage portal?
I'm looking for a good web based portal to install on internal production servers to give information about the health of the server to people who have no login permission for that server at the ...
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Find out which process is changing a file
I'm trying to find a reliable way of finding which process on my machine is changing a configuration file (/etc/hosts to be specific).
I know I can use lsof /etc/hosts to find out what processes ...
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Why is my munin plugin being double executed (concurrently)?
I have a custom made munin plugin that currently is being executed twice every time
$ ps fax
16844 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/munin-node
18206 ? S 0:00 \_ /usr/sbin/munin-node
18863 ...
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Spawn phone call from EC2 alerts
I have a system setup on AWS/EC2, it currently is using their CloudWatch alert system. The problem is this sends just to email, when ideally I would like this to be making a phone call and/or sending ...
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What is a good solution to manage a lot of computers over the internet?
Here is the situation. Our company has just over 300 computers in 90 offices spread across 4 different states. The computers are old and runnings Windows XP. I am looking for a good cheap way to ...
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How to setup a nagios event handler to run only in non working hours?
I have a event handler configured and running in nagios which is triggered every time a given service is in a CRITICAL state.
The problem is that we decided that in regular working hours there's no ...
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script to automatically test if a web site is available
I'm a lone web developer with my own Centos VPS hosting a few small web sites for my clients. Today I discovered my httpd service had stopped (for no apparent reason - but that's another thread). I ...
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How do people keep track if their server software is up-to-date?
Assume you have a server that is non-Windows, how do you keep track if you server software is up-to-date?
Meaning, what tool already exists that will send me automated alerts to inform me that my any ...
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Adding a device with separate name and title using the Zenoss API
The Zenoss UI lets you add a new device with a device name and a title. The former needs to be an IP address or DNS entry, the latter is then used for display purposes.
I am trying to do the same ...
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Remote Linux server monitoring
I'm looking for a solution to monitor multiple Linux servers remotely. I don't need a whole lot of granular data, just basic things like server load and critical error notifications. I'm no Linux ...
