Re: Automated memory monitoring

From: computer person (fake_address_at_nothing.com)
Date: 05/16/03 

Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 14:43:16 GMT

"scriptOmatic" <ScriptOmatic@ChironComputing.Com> wrote in message
news:3EC135E5.996225EB@ChironComputing.Com...
> Stilgar wrote:
> >
> > I need to build a system monitoring tool, to set alarms when the
> > system hits preset resource usage. Ex: if CPU idle is 0% for 15
> > minutes, send a warning email to someone. Or page someone if an DB
> > instance is down.
> >
> > For memory, since AIX uses as much memory as it can for file cache,
> > how could I find, in an automated (i.e. scripted) method, if I am low
> > on RAM? vmstat will always list free as being low. Can I just
> > monitor paging space? If I got it right, paging will be used if there
> > is more virtual memory to manage than real physical memory, so if
> > paging runs low, RAM is automatically low or all used.
> >
> > Please realize that it needs to be something I can automate and that
> > must be "stable". No false alarms at 0300!
> >
> > Thanks!
>
> Please see http://www.opensysmon.com.
> It lets you do what you want. It produces a web interface (or you can
> disable
> that feature) and you simply write scripts that you want and plug them
> into
> the package, you can use any language.
>
> The code base is over 5 years old and has been open source for about 1
> year
> (9 or 10 months?, something like that).
>
> Version 2.2 will be out in a couple of weeks.
>
> It has way many features and most other monitoring tools can simply be
> made to plug into OSM. You can use OS tools to monitor, you can use
> the ones that come with the software (about 40 or so at the website)
> you can write your own, you can get'em off the net.
>
> And it is fully integrated with cron (cron is not required).
> So you can, if you like, have one monitoring plugin
> that runs only once per week while all the others run periodically.
>
> If can be monitored, OSM can monitor it.
>
> Thanks for listening!
>
>
>
> --
> http://ftp.opensysmon.com is a shell script archive site with an
> open source system monitoring and network monitoring software package.
> Many platforms are supplied already compiled.

I looked at the opensysmon website but it does not say AIX is supported,
only HP, Sun, FreeBSD, SG, Linux and NT coming soon.. .??

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