service monitoring for virtual servers

[Rob Buxton]

Hi All,
With the move from physical to virtual servers we no longer have the HP Agents installed and therefore lost the ability of the HP Agents to monitor windows services stopping or starting.

Is there a way to just install this functionality on a virtual server?
Any products that can do this?

I know HPSIM is primarily for managing the hardware - but it does boast about being one console to rule them all!
Having a "lite" or "light" HP Agent on the virtual guest server could be useful.

[fred Passeron]

Hi


I also believe in the message :"one console to rule them all.." but the message applies more to the infrastaructure environment.

When it comes down to service monitoring, one should not see HP SIM as the main solution...I understand the service monitoring is a cool feature but it relies on the agent...

In your case, I'd go for sitescope. This HP software is able to monitor applications and services...

check the attached doc for more info on sitescope...

hope it helps

fred

[Rob Buxton]

Except that costs, plus we also have Nagios here which competes with some of the functionality of Sitescope.

Thanks for the input though.

At this point we're looking at how we can improve the monitoring by utilising the existing monitoring tools.
If we find that is inadequate then we'll review replacing those tools.

[fred Passeron]

OK,

well, if you have nagios, then obviously you don't need sitecope for it can easily monitor these virtual machine.

Besides, with some tweaking, it can also send an alert to hpsim when a service goes down...

fred

[fred Passeron]

OK,

well, if you have nagios, then obviously you don't need sitecope for it can easily monitor these virtual machines.

Besides, with some tweaking, it can also send an alert to hpsim when a service goes down...

fred