How used program to check Software status that running on different servers

[Chris Cheng]

I have many servers located at different location and running different application.
What kind of monitoring tools can keep check the healthy status of the programs that running on such servers (e.g. Citrix, Lotus Domino...)

[Rob Buxton]

Well not HPSIM, and there are not many that can do them all.

Nagios is quite good at checking web servers etc. are available. But any external monitoring software needs something to access / test, like a port the application responds on.

The HP agents can report on services stopping / starting, but they catch the event at source and send a trap rather than polling the service.

[Chris Cheng]

Thanks and you means Nagios can help me to check the software status that running on the servers? And will send me a mail or SMS for alert?

[Rob Buxton]

Depends what you mean by Status.
Nagios like other products needs something to test.
So if you're testing a web server then yes it can test that it gets something back from the web server as well as say a ping response from the server itself.
Check out the Nagios site for more details - we use it here, but I don't have much to do with it.

[Chris Cheng]

Thank you very much.

[Jov]

Hi,

If you want a more reactive solution, either OV Internet Services (OVIS) or SiteScope can monitor applications that requires network communication (i.e. the IP Stack) and report and/or alert on the availability of these services (http, https, Oracle Listner, etc).

If you application is a backend and communicates within the OS to the other tiers, then you'll require an Agent based solution such as Operations Manager (Windows or UNIX).

The above are all HP tools, but there are similar products from other vendors or even OpenSource.


Jov

[Chris Cheng]

Oh, thanks, I will search such information. Thanks you very much