Re: everyday monitoring

From: Lon Stowell (lon.stowell_at_comcast.net)
Date: 08/06/03 

Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2003 22:37:20 GMT

Joe Philip wrote:

> I want to setup some monitoring on our Solaris 7 production servers. Can
> somebody tell me what I should monitor on everyday - I know I have to
> monitor /var/adm/messages. What else should I monitor?
>
>

  It would probably be a good idea to go over to a big white board
  and write down everything that these servers do.

  Then for each thing the servers do, what are the most important
  items in the server environment for that particular set of tasks.
  e.g. [by no means complete, but I charge by the hour for this
  under normal circumstances]

  Disk space
  Response time
  Bulletproof reliability even if it causes poor response time
  Process space
  Memory
  Login events
  Mail events
  Unusual penetration events
  Network events
  Storage subsystem events
  current, peak and average load for anything of interest and general
  trend of same

  Then make the most important entry: Identify the meanest and nastiest
  corporate officer(s) and find out what applications are their hot
  buttons.