VMS monitoring

[Russell Adams]

I have scripts running on the OpenVMS side, dumping to tftp because I
prefer the push method... Otherwise, same concept.

Russell

On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 12:36:09PM -0600, Marc Powell wrote:
> Ironic that this topic came up today. We also have a VMS cluster that's
> a legacy system that we wanted to do some increased monitoring on. The
> solution we came up with and are implementing today, while not elegant,
> is certainly functional. We have created an expect script that telnets
> into the box, issues the commands we need and dumps that to a text file
> on the nagios box. This runs out of cron. We then have a local plugin
> that parses the text file and flags appropriately.
> 
> I would much preferred to go with SNMP monitoring but the items we were
> specifically wanting to monitor are not available via the Multinet TCP
> stack's SNMP (PMDF queue lengths, free disk space, etc).
> 
> I am interested in seeing what if anything comes out of this thread.
> 
> --
> Marc
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Russell Adams [mailto:RLAdams at Kelsey-Seybold.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 12:26 PM
> > To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> > Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] VMS monitoring
> > 
> > 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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