VMS monitoring

[Steve Freegard]

Mike,

I use Nagios to monitor our VMS cluster running OpenVMS/AXP 7.3.  I wrote
some plugins in DCL that are used to monitor disk space, opcom requests,
batch jobs and system processes and submit the results passively to Nagios
using SSH.

I'd meant to spend some time tidying them up and submitting them into the
contrib area with some instructions to get it running, but haven't got
around to it.

It's pretty messy as VMS doesn't ship with SSH by default, so you have to
grab a load of freeware utils to do it.

If you're interested - I'll zip up what I've got and mail it over to you
with some basic instructions.

Kind regards,



Steve Freegard
Systems Manager
Littlehampton Book Services Ltd.
Tel: +44 (0)1903 82 8594
Fax: +44 (0)1903 82 8620

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Knell [mailto:M.Knell at westminster.ac.uk] 
Sent: 13 November 2002 16:56
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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