Critical servives to be monitored

[Spark_2]

Hi,

What must be the services which need to be monitored on a HP UX box i.e cron, ntp and?

Thanks in advance

[Matti_Kurkela · Accepted solution]

It depends on what you're using the system for. If it's a file server, you might think of NFS and/or CIFS services as critical. If you don't use CIFS at all and your only use for NFS is creating make_net_recovery archives once per month + before any OS updates, not so much.

In general, you'll always want to be sure that syslog remains running: if it fails, diagnosing any system-wide problems is going to be much harder.

Ntp is very much recommended, but technically optional.
Cron may be unnecessary if you use some other solution for running regularly scheduled jobs (like the Control-M product, which can manage, schedule and coordinate jobs that involve multiple systems).

If you have a networked backup solution, find out how it works. If the backup agent is started by inetd when the backup master server contacts the system, inetd will be rather important.

MK

[Victor Fridyev]

Hi,

The answer is "It depends"
In the previous message I saw some services, whic h is worth to monitor, fully agree wiyj.
Additionally I'd look on the daemons/services which you run on all your HP-UX computers, e.g. NFS, Oracle, NIS etc
All these services have configuration files in the /etc/rc.config.d directory, so you can writa a universal script, which reads the configuration files and checks whether the appropriate service is up and running.
Also you can use something like BigBrother or similar.

HTH

[Johnson Punniyalingam]

It depends on your requirement

You need plan decide what process you going to monitor as per /etc/services and also you application service or any third party process

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

Business needs determine this.

If its an oracle database server, I'd surely monitor the main oracle server process. I might also monoitor the database writer and the archive log writer.

I might want to create a script that actually logs on the database and reads data, because the process being up does not mean the database is working.

SEP

[Nido]

Hi,
You would not like my reply, but as others say I'd say the same "It depends". It depends what you consider as Critical-Servives.
Start putting down on a notepad all the system standard services you consider should be monitored, you may refer /sbin/init.d listing , there would be third-party application(s) which may not be available in start-up ; consider them too.
These should have been on-top: ping/telnet/ssh...
BTW: We have setup for monitoring Services and System resources too, and we use different custom build scripts apart from using Standard Monitoring tools like HP OVO/Bigbrother/nagios/HP EMS...

More suggestions would require burger(s),I prefer Burger over Pizza so buy me one next time.

Cheers!!