Monitoring Tool for AIX that might work on Solaris also.

[millsra]

I am looking for opinions on software packages that can be used to monitor AIX and Solaris servers. We now have a script that goes out and pulls a vmstat, dfsum, and errpt off of the AIX boxes and e-mails the results in one e-mail we run this script 5 times a day. The problem here is that we go out and log in using the root account and pull this information. Does anyone else do this with a software package that mabey installs an agent that reports this information back to a console that can be monitored. We have in excess of 100 servers that need to be monitored. I know this will be very difficult on a SUN box since nothing seems to work as advertised and there is no errpt (and /var/adm/messages is useless) Any suggestions would be appreiciated.

Millsra

 

[Yegolev]

we are using BMC Patrol. i cannot vouch for how well it works on SunOS, but it does take up a slot in the process list.

be aware that Patrol is near-unusable right out of the box since it alarms on hundreds of stupid things by default. however it is capable of doing just about anything you care to have it do.

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[millsra]

Hum we use BMC Patrol now. I wonder if we can add the functionality to perform these operations. I will have to talk to our guru on this issue. Thanks for the reply.

 

[mrn]

Take a look at big brother

http://www.bb4.com/

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[swortsoul]

I've used BMC Patrol before on Solaris, and it works just like it does on AIX. Like an earlier post said, be careful just running with the default. You will have a couple hundred alarms every hour.