VMS monitoring

[Russell Adams]

If you need help with DCL, let me know. I administrate an OpenVMS
cluster. ;]

Russell

On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 11:21:24AM -0600, Carroll, Jim P [Contractor] wrote:
> 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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