Re: [opennms-devel] Monitoring Processes open nms

Thanks Dan, you're right. I do have  net snmp already installed and I did
develop son custom mibs. I'll check the example for httpd you mention and
see if it is what I'm looking for.

Alejandro

On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 7:42 PM, Daniel Lacey <[email protected]>
wrote:

>  Alejandro Islas wrote:
> > HI, I would like to create a service that monitors some private
> > processes of our critic aplications. I read a Tutorial that does
> > someting similar by linking a service to a private mib field value.
> > Although this approach may work for my solution, I would like to know
> > if its possible to do something like creating an opennms service
> > that will do a "remote grep" to my servers (my servers run under
> > linux)  so that I would know that my processes are being executed?
> > Another other idea of how I can monitor private processes via opennms??
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Alejandro Islas
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> Alejandro,
>
> I would suggest that you look at the net-snmp package that comes with
> Linux (although it may not be installed by default!).
> This is the open-source SNMP agent.
> The official website for the package is www.net-snmp.org.
>
> This agent will allow you to specify how instances of any process that
> should be running on the system.
> It does by matching the string you supply with the names of the running
> processes on your system.
> I believe it has an example for httpd in the default config.
>
> It can be configured to do much more...
> If you are collecting SNMP data on the Linux servers already, you are
> probably running the net-snmp agent.
> It will also allow sub-agents to connect to the agent for custom MIB
> implementation.
>
> If this sounds like a good fit for you, consult the man page for the
> net-snmp application snmpconf (1) which will walk you thru configuring
> your agent.
> # net-snmp-config --configure-options
> This will tell you how your agent was configured when compiled.
>
> # net-snmp-config --snmpconfpath
> This will tell you where the agent will look for it's configuration
> files (formatted like $PATH).
>
> Sincerely,
> Dan
>
>
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