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  • 1.  centralised server monitoring

    Posted Tue November 18, 2008 01:22 AM

    Originally posted by: apple08


    dear all,
    do u implement centralised server monitoring for yr aix servers. we hv hundereds aix servers, can we have a notification inside one email only. hope to hear from you. thank you


  • 2.  Re: centralised server monitoring

    Posted Tue November 18, 2008 02:23 AM

    Originally posted by: frenger


    Its hard to understand your writing, but I guess you need a monitoring solutions for hundreds of AIX clients. When you need a professional solution take it from IBM (ITM - IBM Tivoli Monitoring) or HP (OV - Open View). When your budget is small and you have no money for those software (what would be insane with that much AIX installations) you have to be creative:
    -> for centralized errorreporting look at this: http://www.ee.pw.edu.pl/~pileckip/aix/err_notify2.htm
    -> for performance monitoring look at this: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/wikis/display/WikiPtype/ganglia for the base setup and this http://www.perzl.org/ganglia/ for virtualized machines (p5/6 HW).
    We use ganglia and OV together, OV was a decison from the managment and for deep monitoring on virtualized performance we use ganglia.

    Cheers frenger


  • 3.  Re: centralised server monitoring

    Posted Tue November 18, 2008 10:10 AM

    Originally posted by: SystemAdmin


    We use nagios to monitor our AIX servers. www.nagios.org


  • 4.  Re: centralised server monitoring

    Posted Tue November 18, 2008 02:01 PM

    Originally posted by: SystemAdmin


    Depends on what you mean by "monitoring".
    The easiest thing to do is direct all syslogd messages to a single host.


  • 5.  Re: centralised server monitoring

    Posted Thu November 20, 2008 07:18 PM

    Originally posted by: apple08


    dear sir,
    interesting. how do u direct all syslogd messages to a single host. would like to get the df output and to alert filesystem that is more than 80%. if possible all messages from all the servers in one email. how do u do this? hope to hear from you. thank you


  • 6.  Re: centralised server monitoring

    Posted Thu July 08, 2010 05:44 AM

    Originally posted by: apple08


    Dear AIX gurus,
    This link is very useful.
    http://www.ee.pw.edu.pl/~pileckip/aix/err_notify2.htm.
    If we have multiple servers at different network zone (having firwall in between), what are the ports/communication/protocol that need to be openned for forwarding AIX error messages to a central host?
    from the syslog, how to filter only critical alerts to be sent to our email?
    Hope to hear from you. Many thanks in advance.


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