RHEL 3.0 ES and Insight Manager

[Anoop Bhat]

Hi,

Currently, we are using nagios to monitor the linux machines but have decided to move on to Insight Manager 4.1 i think.

My question is this:

Is it possible to use Insight to monitor processes at the OS and send alerts based on processes running or not running?

What is needed to accomplish this task and is it worthwhile?

Currently, I am utilizing Nagios and Netsaint to monitor for processes but I would like to put all my systems on to insight if possible.

thanks

-A

[Georg Tresselt]

In principal, it should be possible

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=717685

[HGN]

Hi

This should the thread mentioned by Georg has details on it.

Rgds

HGN

[Anoop Bhat]

I think I'm misunderstanding something here and I think its because I left some information out.

I've installed RHEL 3.0 with the HP PSP and thats it. Configured SNMP to point to the insight server and made sure snmp was running.

Do i need to do anything else in order to have insight see OS information?

[Don_89]

Customizing Insight Manger to this level would be difficult. I put together a homegrown solution using MRTG and Angelfire. You can take a look at it here..

http://www.linuxtech.cc/article001.php

the demo URL is

http://www.linuxtech.cc/article002.html

[Anoop Bhat]

currently, we're using nagios with netsaint to get information about procs.

[David Claypool]

We need to separate a couple of concepts:

HP Systems Insight Manager (currently version 4.2 released earlier in December) is a receiver of events. With a MIB to compile, it can receive an event from a variety of sources, including HP ProLiant Insight agents and 3rd party management applications. So HP SIM can receive just about any event without a problem.

The HP ProLiant Insight agents on Linux instrument hardware on a ProLiant and have no instrumentation at the OS level to identify processes and alert on stop or start of a process (Insight agents on Windows do have this functionality).