InterMapper can monitor *NIX nodes to varying degrees. It all depends on what probes you want to use and how much information you want to collect. You can use a simple ping probe, to SSH, HTTP/HTTPS probes to monitor services, or you can enable SNMP on the *NIX servers and use some of the supplied Simple SNMP probes. You can add a device to a map multiple times, assigning each device a different probe, then you group the multiple devices into a single group item. You can build your own probes using the new Probe Builder feature found in InterMapper.
What InterMapper can't do is to scrape logs for specific errors. At Georgian College we are using another tool called Splunk as a syslog server. We configure our infrastructure devices including some Linux servers to mirror log events to our Splunk remote syslog server. Splunk collects all the remote logging and Splunk provides a fairly robust search syntax. You can build dashboards based on saved searches and run scheduled nightly reports. You can also create alerts. There are other syslog servers available such as Kiwi/Sawmill from Solarwinds, I hope this helps. Randy > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:InterMapper- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of mbj42378 > Sent: Monday, January 30, 2012 1:04 PM > To: [email protected]; intermapper- > [email protected] > Subject: [IM-Talk] Using InterMapper to monitor Linux and Unix nodes > > > How can I use InterMapper for monitoring Linux and Unix nodes? > > I need to be able to monitor and alert for the following things: > > - Look for running processes > - Scrape Log files for specific errors > > I was able to monitor TCP Ports and some URLs like on the Windows side but > I need to find a way to do these items above on Linux. > > Please provide me any help/guidance on how to do this if you can or if you > are aware of any Linux/Unix specific probes that I could use. > > thanks in advance for any help. > > Mike > > > -------------------- m2f -------------------- > > Read this topic online here: > http://forums.intermapper.com/viewtopic.php?p=3962#3962 > > > > > > __________________________________________________________ > __________ > List archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/intermapper-talk%40list.dartware.com/ > To unsubscribe: send email to: [email protected] > > > -- > This message was scanned by the Georgian College ESVA and is believed to > be clean. ____________________________________________________________________ List archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/intermapper-talk%40list.dartware.com/ To unsubscribe: send email to: [email protected]
