Hi,
I am fairly new to mon, but come to it from an infrastructure standpoint (i.e. I am NOT a perl person but am pretty good with systems...)
I initially set up mon (and MRTG) to monitor our switches/routers etc and used monshow to show the basic information and MRTG to show the stats of the network kit. - this works fine!
I have been tasked to widen the scope of mon to include the oracle databases (on aix) the m$sql databases (on nt) and various other services. I initially refused citing "jobsworth" area of responsibilities etc, and got the reply - do it anyway!
I am a bit stuck. I have read through the man pages, searched through the mailing list and there doesn't seem to be a set much help on how to check the database connections. To make it a bit more complicated, the NMS I am using is an old sun ultra 5 with suse linux 7.1 on it. (so intel rpm's are out) I don't really want to install Oracle on it (in order to get the perl oracle module to work) or to get sqlnet or tnsping installed.
1. I am a bit confused on how to get the msql-mysql.monitor to work. The actual file infers putting --mode hostname but how does it fit into a mon.cfg file???
I have:
Hostgroup mssql_server 10.10.10.10
....
watch mssql_server
service [what_should_go_in_here]
description M$SQL
interval 5m
monitor msql-mysql.monitor [with any options here???]
...
2. The Oracle side has me stumped. The sqlconn.monitor that comes with mon seems to want Oracle installed locally - any way around this??
3. Another issue that has me a bit stumped, is if I want to monitor a range of workstations - is this possible? Ideally an IP address with a qualifying subnet mask.
4. Is there a list of services that can be called from within the mon.cfg? I guess it must be somewhere but I haven't come across it yet...
5. Additionally has anyone got any tips on using the ntservice.monitor? I have an eval copy of the empire SNMP s/w running on a test NT box, I can use snmpwalk to get the response from the box, but can't get the ntservice.monitor to communicate with it. If I try and run it independantly on the command line, I get "no such file or directory"
Any assistance gratefully received on any of these points.
Regards
Simon
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