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We chose from the most informative forum postings and asked community member ddenton to expand on his experience. His tip, Setting up SSH Monitoring and Oracle DB Checks via SSH, is featured in this newsletter. Feel free to contribute to the discussion in our forum. If you want your very own Nazbatag Monitoring Bunny, submit your own How Do I forum topic. If it's chosen, a Nazbatag Monitoring Bunny will be on its way to you.
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Application delivery can be dependent on more than one physical machine, and can involve for example, a database on one machine, and a web server on another machine. Classic network management systems tend to treat these elements separately, which drives a demand for event correlation to accomplish forensic analysis of a failure involving multiple elements. With pressure coming from management to assess the health of applications and report on the availability and performance, it is useful to apply a grouping mechanism that allows the monitoring system to apply service checks on a variety of disparate machines and their resident applications , as related to an overall application delivery. This technique can give early warnings on the deterioration of key distributed elements necessary to run the application, and reduce the pressure for after-the-fact analysis.
Nagios®* is flexible in this regard, and as such can be configured to show a virtual host that has service checks assigned to distributed elements.
The following steps will show you how to set up a virtual host, and assign distributed services to it... more »
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Last month's article laid the groundwork about virtualization technology. This month we'll take a look at the state of the industry in applying this technology to information technology. Here are the key business needs IT can address with virtualization:
- Production Server Consolidation
- Business Continuity Management
- Test and Development
- Dynamic Datacenter
- Virtual Desktop
Production server consolidation aims to achieve effective utilization of the investment in compute infrastructure.
There are two related approaches... more»
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Congratulations to GroundWork community member ddenton who won a Nabaztag Bunny for his posts on how to set up ssh monitoring and Oracle DB checks via ssh.
I'll preface these instructions by saying that all of our target machines are running either Redhat Enterprise Server 3 or 4. The Nagios/Groundwork server is running RHEL 4. Some of these commands may need tweaking depending on your distribution.
- Follow the Groundwork install instructions as written.
- Set up your target hosts as needed.
- Browse to the Bookshelf section on SSH Monitoring (located under Administrator-Groundwork Profiles-SSH Monitoring). Follow the instructions under "Red Hat and Solaris" for configuring the target host to accept connections using Public Keys.
- Follow the setup instructions in the "Groundwork Setup" section. For us, step 10 failed, and the following steps were necessary.
- SSH to the groundwork server (if you're not already there), and perform the following steps... more »
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Executive Summary
IT organizations are constantly looking for cost-effective ways to manage increasingly complex heterogenous infrastructures to meet business demands. Executive leadership teams need to have more visibility into the IT infrastructure and the delivery of their IT services to reduce the risk of security failures, drive process and technology integrations, and meet stringent service-level agreements (SLAs). As many IT organizations have deployed monitoring solutions, open source solutions have emerged over the past several years to monitor the health of heterogenous systems. IDC recommends that IT organizations assess their business and technology requirements and determine if open source management solutions should be added to their short list for network and systems monitoring... more»
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