Anybody ever heard of this application/company? - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

29 Mar 2013

At 04:01 PM 3/29/2013, you wrote:
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 It depends what you're trying to monitor or 
graph. We use nagios for system checks and to 
page out if services are beyond a threshold or 
if a service fails but that's mostly system and simple app checks. 
People talk about a program called "What's Up" or 
"What's Up Gold" but it seemed a little basic way back when I looked at it.

We use Nagios extensively, but we've gone a 
little beyond basic checks. We wrote some 
plug-ins and adapted others. One of the simpler 
ones is to do an http GET of a page and verify 
that 1. the page can be retrieved and 2. it 
contains the words "<processname> is alive."

We also issue SIP commands and make sure our 
Asterisk servers are alive, and  send TNS PINGs, 
which indicate that an Oracle database server at 
least has basic connectivity to the Oracle process.

I found the configuration process a bit 
cumbersome, so I store the hosts file in a CSV, 
edit it with Excel and a simple macro, and run a 
script to install it. The script even restarts 
the Nagios process for me, after checking my new 
hosts and services files for proper syntax.

-t

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Subject: RE: Anybody ever heard of this application/company?

What open source tools that run on php and mysql would do the same things?

I haven't but what were you wanting to accomplish?  These are often
companies using opensource tools and reworking the front end to make it look
like their own ware.

Subject: Anybody ever heard of this application/company?

http://newrelic.com/

Cindy Croxton

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