UNIX/Linux Server Monitoring
The UNIX and Linux probes currently support multiple versions
of UNIX and Linux including Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Sinix and Tru64 UNIX.
But more are being added all the time so please call us for availability of
other platforms. The UNIX Monitoring solution consists of 6 probes that can
be run stand-alone or when run simultaneously ensure maximum visibility into
UNIX performance and availability.
CPU, Disk & Memory Probe
The CDM Probe monitors key system components such as CPUs,
Disks, and Memory, and detects critical bottlenecks before they have an impact
on system performance. The CDM Probe automatically pre-scans the UNIX servers
and defines individual monitoring points and threshold values.
Fig. 1 The CDM Probe allows you to quickly and easily define
performance thresholds and conditions across all your system components.
Fig2. You can also quickly set the timing for data sampling
from each of the various system components to be monitored, and enable system
performance elements to be used for monitoring quality of service against service
level agreements.
Fig3. You can easily define how messages should be displayed
and alerts generated when thresholds are exceeded.
| Features:
- Performance:
- Threshold monitoring with low and high level watermarks
- Graphical presentation of actual and average performance usage as
well as threshold values
- To avoid false positive alarms, i.e. spikes, the interval and sample
rate can easily be configured
- CPU:
- CPU usage (%)
- Disk:
- Absolute disk usage (MBs)
- Information retrieval on:
- Local and networked disks
- Total disk space
- Free disk space
- Used (%) disk space
- 'Expected state' monitoring on networked disks
- Memory:
- Pagefile usage (%)
- Swapping/paging activity (pages/s)
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Processes Probe
The Processes Probe collects information on system, application
and network processes. As soon as a process starts to fail or stops unexpectedly,
the Processes Probe issues immediate alerts or launches pre-defined automated
recovery and restart procedures.
Fig. 1 The Processes Probe allows you to quickly and easily
set up monitoring profiles for all your UNIX processes.
| Features:
- Monitoring of system, application and network processes
- Easy profile definition
- Easy-to-define automated recovery/restart actions
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Logfile Probe
The Logfile Probe scans ASCII-based logfiles and extracts
pre-defined information automatically, eliminating the need for time-consuming
and inherently error-prone manual intervention. Sophisticated built-in utilities
allow the monitoring of very complex logfiles across your systems.
Fig. 1 You can configure the Logfile Probe to monitor your
ASCII-based logfiles based on any number of watcher definitions.
| Features:
- Monitoring of ASCII-based files
- Support for both:
- Line-oriented files:
- standard logfiles with a single line for each message in the file
- Record-oriented files:
- complex logfiles with unstructured layout and multi-line messages
- Simple and powerful watcher definitions by use of:
- Regular expressions
- Pattern matching
- Column positioning
- Character positioning
- Monitoring of multiple logfiles
- Multiple watcher definitions (per logfile)
- Optimized scanning facilities:
- You can scan the whole file or just new entries
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