topic Re: Linux Monitoring in Operating System - Linux

Linux Monitoring

RichardRo — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 09:36:20 GMT

Hi all,

I’m trying to understand the best way of monitoring RH 3.0/4.0 ES servers on
HP blades. Both our Windows and Linux servers will be HP ProLiant blades and both will have SIM 5.0 installed. This will take care of the HW monitoring, but now how do you monitor the OS layer? (Heartbeats, CPU, Memory and Disk space)

Thanks, Richard

Re: Linux Monitoring

Ivan Ferreira — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 09:55:19 GMT

You can use nagios, ganglia, rrdtool, mrtg to monitor your server.

Re: Linux Monitoring

Vipulinux — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 09:56:43 GMT

hi
you can look at products from netapp if you have $$ else all this can be achieved using simple shell scripts.

also there are products like topaz.

cheers

Re: Linux Monitoring

RichardRo — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 10:33:34 GMT

topaz? Is it an internal Linux app?

Also, what would HP solution be? Are network group has HP NNM installed. Would I be able to leverage off NNM?

Thanks, Richard

Re: Linux Monitoring

Bill Thorsteinson — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 11:44:04 GMT

SNMP tools are available for Linux and
expose the OS to monitoring by any SNMP
tools you might have.

Re: Linux Monitoring

dirk dierickx — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 02:18:51 GMT

each linux server comes installed with logwatch by default. tune it a little bit to your taste.

if you are using other hp products like OVO, you can install a linux agent to do the monitoring for you.