To find out if your Microsoft cluster did a failover is a boring task to go in the eventviewer or logs. Well I wrote a script that does just that all it needs is check_nt NC_NET plugin on the server […]
Monitor FTP erros with nagios
So How can we know the FTP server is saving all files as it should. Well I found a way to go directly in the IIS-ftp log files and get the results from there. They key tool here was logparser, […]
Monitor IIS erros with nagios
So How can we know the IIS server is responding to all petitions? Well I found a way to go directly in the IIS log files and get the results from there. They key was logparser Its very usefull to […]
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 […]
Exchange mailbox login plugin
This plugins uses a script called check_counter_rawcount.vbs developed by Dr. Dave Blunt at GroundWork Open Source Inc. I used it to grab WMI performance counter information but the script itself allows many more “performance counters” to be used. The script […]
opsview
I just heard about this yet anothe tool that works with nagios its called opsview. Opsview is the award winning Open Source application and infrastructure monitoring software from Opsera. It provides comprehensive system management capabilities used to monitor the health […]
ESX monitoring
So I got a hard mission, monitor a VMWare ESX 3 Server. I thought it would be easy but I was wrong. Of course I did with Nagios/Centreon, at first I tried SNMP without much success. So I found out […]