RE: [VANILLA-LIST:3115] Monitoring Netrek Services

["Steve Sheldon" <sheldon@visi.com>]

Hmm, we use Tivoli for monitoring our applications, Openview for monitoring
our network and Ecotools for monitoring our servers.

We write little test apps which call funcitons in the application to do
things.

This might be calling the LoadAsset routine to try to retrieve record #1.
It may be calling the document search to retrieve all documents belonging to
'sheldon'.  For checking message queuing, we send a message into the queue
and look for it at the other end.

One way to check to see if the netrek server is responding is to have a
client which connects, does something like send a message to itself, and
then disconnects.  If this all happened within a time limit of say 30
seconds it responds with 'Success', otherwise it responds with 'Failure'.




> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Tanner [mailto:tanner@real-time.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2000 3:02 PM
> To: vanilla-list@us.netrek.org
> Subject: [VANILLA-LIST:3115] Monitoring Netrek Services
>
>
> I am slowing moving away from Solstice Domain Manager and to an
> open source
> network monitoring tool call NetSaint <http://www.netsaint.org/>.
>
> I am finding NetSaint to be more flexible, better reporting and more
> customizable (hey, it's open source!).
>
> One of the nice things is you can write monitoring agents for specific
> services. For instance, a irc agent can tell number of users
> currently online,
> max users, channels, etc.
>
> So, I am wondering what would be a good netrek agent? What should
> it report?
>
> I have the ping agent running against continuum now, so I can
> tell if the box
> is up network-wise.
>
> Is the agent as simple as telnetting to port 2591?
>
> What is necessary to determine that netrek server is up and running?
>
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