Setup VMWare-CLI Perl Kit on CentOS 5.5 x64 (RedHat) Older Post with Simillar Information And overall info on how to monitor ESX IMPORTANT: For ESX(i) 6.x use https://github.com/op5/check_vmware_api First download my full package witch has all dependencies plus the vmware-vSphere-CLI Required […]
How to monitor OpenManage Server Administrator via nagios
Copy the Dell Open Manager to the Linux box using WinSCP # wget http://www.xoroz.com/files/OM_6.1.0_ManNode_A00.tar.gz # yum install libxml2 # tar -zxvf OM_6.1.0_ManNode_A00.tar Options NOTE: With ver 6.1 the “b” option changed to the “d” option x = express – Install […]
check_vmstats
So many check_mem scripts out there but I am still not satified so I wrote my own. Many scripts report the total use of memory but they dont care how much memory is placed in cache by the OS or […]
Nagios check_con
I wrote a simple plugin to check the number of established connections to a windows server. Just execute: cmd /c netstat -an |find /i “estab” /c I also wrote a script for Windows Here is the code I have also […]
Monitor Varnish with Nagios
Varnish is an amazing reverse proxy product and it does its job very well, but how can we know that? Or even better how can we know it detected problems in the backed? Currently I monitor those server using hit/ratio […]
website performance tools
So how can we now a website is working how it should. As far as performance, server settings, code etc… Well there are lots of tools out there but the best ones I have came across are: Firefox AddOn Firebug […]
monitor esx with nagios
Its a system administrator duty to be sure the ESX servers health and performance are OK. I monitor: I believe the most important things to monitor are: CPU check_cpu_esx DISK check_disk VOLUMES (storage) check_vfs Hardware (Fan,Temp,Arrays,Memory Dimms,Disks etc…) check_openmanage check_hpasm-4.2.tar.gz […]