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Recap So in the previous post I put together a simple script for getting the data out of a specified registry entry that handled the REG DWORD BIG ENDIAN data type. In this one I’ll go over the general process of getting the registry based perf data into Zabbix and setting up alerting based on it. Setting [...] A while back I posted about a Replay report that I wrote to help me monitor the multiple Replay servers we have deployed globally. It was a good first effort and was useful, but having to engage my brain first thing in the morning to read (and more importantly actually comprehend) the emailed reports eofre [...] Where I work we use AppAssure’s Replay product to back up some of our Exchange servers. Because the servers in question are very geographically dispersed we have multiple servers running Replay. Monitoring and keeping an eye on them to assure backups are happening properly was requiring more time than I wanted to spend because we [...] One of the things I wanted to check in looking at Zabbix was how hard it would be to use the Nagios plugins I wrote/modified for monitoring ESX 3i in Zabbix. It turns out that they are usable pretty much as is though there is a minor modification that needs to be [...] As I mentioned in an earlier post one of the issues we’ve had with the idea of deploying ESX 3i vs 3.5 is the ability to monitor the hardware since neither the DRAC card nor the BMC via IPMI seem to be able to give us all the info we need. I had [...] Okay now that we have a user that’s set up for access to IPMI what can we find out about our server from a monitoring perspective? If run ipmitool -h we get a list of commands we can run.
Several of these “commands” have sub commands. For example the [...] Setting up IPMI via the DRAC We’ll walk through the steps to set up the server for monitoring via IPMI using the DRAC. It is supposedly possible to do this without the DRAC, but I haven’t had a reason to try to do that yet. Log in the DRAC (ex: https://<RAC IP [...] In one of my projects at work, we’ve been debating whether to use ESX 3i (installable) or ESX 3.5 on a large number of Dell servers we’re getting ready to deploy. The advantage of 3i is we can treat the host as more of an appliance (i.e. hopefully fewer patches/maintenance). Downside is monitoring. Since [...] |
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