VMS monitoring

[Carroll, Jim P [Contractor]]

I don't suppose it would be possible to build NRPE on the VMS box...?

If not, is SSH installed on it?  If so, I would point the VMS admin at the
docs on how to write a plugin.  (I'm trying to find that doc, and I can't
find it....)

Essentially, the logic of most plugins is this:

check metric
echo value(s)
if metric > critical threshold
   return 2
if metric > warning threshold
   return 1
else
   return 0
end

You can take a look at a few of the existing plugins (<pluginname> -h) to
get an idea of the switches and arguments which are typical (eg, "-w <value>
-c <value>").

You shouldn't be tasked with trying to build any plugins on VMS, but you
should be able to work with the person who has that capability.

As for accessing the newly crafted plugin, you should be able to do so using
check_by_ssh (again, assuming you have SSH on the VMS host).

Otherwise, the next likely choice would be to use the check_snmp plugin
(assuming the VMS host has an SNMP agent installed).

jc

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Knell [mailto:M.Knell at westminster.ac.uk]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 10:56 AM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] VMS monitoring
> 
> 
> 
> All,
> 
> We've been using Nagios for a few weeks to monitor a whole bunch of 
> hosts around the university, but now the management have asked me
> if I can also arrange to monitor the two VMS systems we still 
> have around.
> 
> I can do the usual checks to make sure network services are available,
> but has anyone done host-level monitoring of disk space etc. on VMS
> boxen? Having had a quick google, I suspect that one or two 
> people might
> be doing it, but there's not much detail, and as a UNIX guy myself I
> don't have the necessary clues to write a VMS monitoring plugin..
> 
> Mike
> 
> -- 
> Principal Systems Development Officer, ISLS, University of 
> Westminster, UK
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