System Monitoring with AWK?

[Scott Frye_1]

We are stepping away from our system monitoring contracts. What I want to do is run tools like bdf, top, swapinfo, who, or ps -ef and grep for running applications on each of our HP-UX boxes (11.0 and 11.i). Ideally I would like the final output to be on one box that I can use AWK to look at the data and send pages when things are not OK.

My question is how do I get the information from all these different machines into one machine (maybe even one file)?

Thanks

Scott

[Pete Randall]

Scott,

If you have NFS available amongst these various machines, it should be simple to copy/move/create these files on whichever machine you desire. Barring NFS availability, you'll need to ftp them back and forth or use "r" facilities (rcp, remsh, etc).


Pete

[Denver Osborn]

If you don't have time to reinvent the wheel, another option is BigBrother. It's a pretty nice tool if you have to monitor multiple systems.

http://bb4.com/

Hope this helps,
-denver

[Jean-Luc Oudart · Accepted solution]

Hi Scott,

may be the answer is in one of these threads :
"favourite sysadmin scripts you always keep around (1) (2) and (3)"
(thanks to Bill)

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x026250011d20d6118ff40090279cd0f9,00.html

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x836cc1c4ceddd61190050090279cd0f9,00.html

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0xf0fc5dc05a7ad711abdc0090277a778c,00.html

Regards,
Jean-Luc

[Scott Frye_1]

We are not running NFS on any box.

[Scott Frye_1]

Thanks for the scripts, I'll dig around and see what I come up with.

[Rory R Hammond]

If you have one system useing has a database like oracle.

You can run your scripts on the remote machines. Using a sql client on the remote systems you can insert your gathered data data into tables.

Rory