db2 & websphere alerts

[Stanley Hopcroft]

Dear Sir,

I am writing to thank you for your letter and say,

On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 08:09:47PM -0800, nagios-users-request at lists.sourceforge.net wrote:
> 
> Message: 6
> Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 08:41:06 +0530
> From: Trevor Warren <trevorwarren at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Nagios-users] db2 & websphere alerts
> 
> Morning Guys,
> 
>   At one of my customers premises we are making use of Tivoli to pull
> Operating System - DB2 -Apache and  WebSphere statistics to a
> centralised Tivoli Monitoring Region Server. Tivoli is getting to be a
> nightmare and hence i had a long time ago deployed Nagios which the
> customer uses increasingly in production rather than Tivoli.
> 

He he.

One thing you may like to consider is using Nagios to get better value 
from the Tivoli investment by using the more responsive Nag CGIs to 
provide 

- scheduled downtime

- acknowledgements with comments

- disabling notifications

- periodic re-notification (without TEC rules)

for hosts equipped with Tivoli agents.

This approach also moves escalation for such hosts from TEC rules into 
Nagios configuration - a huge advantage.

The TEC rules could invoke a program that classifies the Tivoli event 
(into corresponding Nagios services eg TEC disk, TEC cpu, .. TEC misc) 
and submit a passive service check result (with ssh or NCSA etc). 

<off topic>
Incidentally, this may be a way of dealing with your current problems of 
getting events into Nag - have your existing processes simply format 
their findings as Nag service check results 
( http://your_nag_host/nagios/docs/passivechecks.html ) and get them to 
Nag somehow ( ssh Nag_Host echo 'Service_Check_Result' > 
/path/to/Nag/var/rw/nagios.cmd is pretty easy )
</off topic>

This means that all managed elements are visible to Nagios and subject 
to per service Nagios processing (for notifications etc) configuration. 

There is a _considerable_ difference in responsiveness and utility 
between the Nagios CGIs and the Tivoli console viewers (both X and web 
based).

[snip]

> 
> Trevor
> 

Yours sincerely.

-- 
Stanley Hopcroft

IP Australia
Ph: (02) 6283 3189  Fax: (02) 6281 1353
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