Equivalent application for Event Monitoring Service GUI of HP unix in Linux

[Venkat R.S]

At present we are using the Event Monitoring Service GUI of SAM in HP Unix machine for the generation of SNMP alarms to monitor the

1. Memeory issue,
2. CPU
3. Disk performance
4. To notify the number of users.

Now we are porting all the application to
Redhat Linux.

whether there is any equivalent application in Linux for the same functionality??

[Ivan Ferreira]

To collect and monitor performance related statistics, you could use a software like Nagios or Ganglia.

[Alzhy]

Venkat, this will be vendor independent but geenrally each vendor's implementation would sometimes also support other vendor's hardware.

For HP - it will be HPSIM (Insight)
For IBM -- it wil be Director.

These suites do not only cover basic server heatlh but also coevrs montoring of hardware components... just like HPDIAGS/EMS on HP-UX do.

[Venkat R.S]

Thanks for details.

I checked the userguide of Nagios and Ganglia, but this software does not generate any SNMP alarm during some problem.

I need software that generate SNMP alarms during the critical conditions.

are there any linux (Redhat) command to check the status of the disk and lan similar to ioscan in HP unix??

I checked the web, i got few command like
hwbrowser, lspci etc but these command gives only the disk connected but not the status.

[Michael Leu · Accepted solution]

All hardware issues on ProLiant servers can be monitored with the ProLiant Support Pack (PSP) for Linux.

1) Go to http://hp.com/go/bsc
2) Download drivers and software
3) Select your server hardware
4) Select your Linux distribution
5) download ProLiant support pack

The PSP can generate SNMP traps (alarms) to HP SIM or to some other monitoring software.

If you want some background, read 'Managing ProLiant servers with Linux HOWTO':
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c00223285/c00223285.pdf

[Venkat R.S]

Hi Michael Leu,

Thanks for you reply,

I downloaded the software from the HP link but for the installation of the software, it is asking for smartstart CD. i do not have smartstart CD.

are there any other way to install this software without smartstart CD??