How To Monitor And Manage IPMI Management Console

How To Monitor And Manage IPMI Management Console

How To Monitor And Manage IPMI Management ConsoleThis guide provides an overview on how to monitor and manage
IPMI Management Console with Verax NMS. The Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) is a standardized computer system interface used by system administrators to manage a computer system and monitor its operation. The guide is divided into following parts:Adding IPMI Management Console  to the list of
monitored applications.Configuring availability sensors and performance counters
for IPMI Console.System’s IPMI Management Console overview.Setting up alarms and notification poli

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Centralized RSYSLOG Server Monitoring

Centralized RSYSLOG Server Monitoring

Centralized RSYSLOG Server MonitoringThis tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install
RSYSLOG server on Debian 6 (Squeeze) and how to send syslog data to it
from multiple client servers. We will also show how to install an Apache
webserver and a MySQL database server to gather the syslog data and how
to install LogAnalyzer to easily browse the collected data with a
web-browser.I’m using an readymade OpenVZ virtualisation template for this setup
but this should also work on most Debian based operating Systems.
I do not issue any guarantee that this will work for you! Installin

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How To Simulate Network Devices Using SNMP Simulator

How To Simulate Network Devices Using SNMP Simulator

How To Simulate Network Devices Using SNMP SimulatorThis tutorial explains how you can simulate network devices for testing purposes with the free Verax SNMP Simulator. Verax SNMP agent simulator is a tool that can simulate multiple SNMPv1/v2c agents on a single host on standard 161 port through multi-netting. It allows IT personnel to build virtual, simulated networks of devices without purchasing any additional hardware, for instance for testing purposes. Individual simulated agent responses can be initially retrieved from existing devices and modified at runtime by user defined rules.   Req

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How To Use Nagios Plugins In Verax NMS

How To Use Nagios Plugins In Verax NMS

How To Use Nagios Plugins In Verax NMSThis guide shows how to use Nagios plugins to monitor devices
in Verax NMS Express. Verax NMS is a cross-platform network and application monitoring software. Tools used:Sample Nagios plugin for CPU check in a Shell Script format
(.sh file) http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Plugins/System-Metrics/CPU-Usage-and-Load/Check-CPU-LOAD-using-SNMP/detailsVerax NMS Express ver. 1.9.5: http://www.veraxsystems.com/en/products/nms Adding Nagios Plugin To The DeviceFirst, download a plugin. In this example I will use
plugin for checking CPU usage over the SNMP (che

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How To Set Up Multi-Level/Master-Slave Umbrella Network Monitoring

How To Set Up Multi-Level/Master-Slave Umbrella Network Monitoring

How To Set Up Multi-Level/Master-Slave Umbrella Network MonitoringThis guide provides an overview on how to set up umbrella monitoring to monitor applications and devices in distributed networks. Multiple instances of monitoring systems (in this example Verax NMS express) can be configured in a tree-like, master-slave, federated umbrella monitoring structure. This umbrella-like monitoring can be used to monitor geographically distributed
networks e.g. by telecommunications operators to manage regional, state
and national networks or managed service providers for managing their
clients’ infrast

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Configure Monit To Send SMS Instead Of Email

Configure Monit To Send SMS Instead Of EmailThis tutorial helps you configure monitto send alert messages using SMS to your mobile phone when a service fails instead of traditional email notification. Because monit can send only emails but not SMS,
we will use an email-to-sms gateway where monit will send its emails to, and the email-to-sms gateway will convert the emails to SMS messages. Why monit with SMS?First obvious reason is  that you will not need physical presence or access to your email account in order to get notified about the problem with some server process.
On another hand, imagi

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Installing Nagios 3.4.4 On CentOS 6.3

Installing Nagios 3.4.4 On CentOS 6.3IntroductionNagios is a monitoring tool under GPL licence. This tool lets you
monitor servers, network hardware (switches, routers, …) and
applications. A lot of plugins are available and its big community makes Nagios the biggest open source monitoring tool. This tutorial shows how to install Nagios 3.4.4 on CentOS 6.3.  PrerequisitesAfter installing your CentOS server, you have to disable selinux & install some packages to make nagios work.To disable selinux, open the file: /etc/selinux/config# vi /etc/selinux/config# This file controls the state of SEL

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Monitoring Linux And Unix Server Temperatures With Opsview

Monitoring Linux And Unix Server Temperatures With Opsview

Monitoring Linux And Unix Server Temperatures With OpsviewManaging power consumption in a Datacenter is a key factor in helping keep overall business energy costs down and ensuring servers are running at optimum performance. Overheating can lead to increased costs for cooling and also runs the risk of servers crashing. Opsview server monitoring software can be used to check and alert on server temperature and also the temperature of individual components within a server (Memory, CPU and Hard drives). Thresholds and alerts can be set for when critical temperatures are exceeded, helping to keep

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Nagios 3.x.x/Icinga 1.x.x Server Integration For SMS Alerts Via FoxBox Devices On Debian Squeeze

Nagios 3.x.x/Icinga 1.x.x Server Integration For SMS Alerts Via FoxBox Devices On Debian SqueezeThis tutorial explains how to integrate a standard Nagios (or Icinga) monitoring server with an SMS notification external device, the FoxBox (www.smsfoxbox.it).1 Preliminary noteFoxBox, as stated by manufacturers, comes in two similar versions (G25 and LX800) differing on hardware specifics.
In this guide we will refer to SMS Gateway LX800 (we bought this one because of its higher performance, and the CompactFlash storage), but I am confident that it could be extended to other versions without probl

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Monitoring OpenStack Swift With Opsview

Monitoring OpenStack Swift With Opsview

Monitoring OpenStack Swift With OpsviewAs a starting point we’ll perform a ‘front door’ check as this should work no matter what Swift implementation you are using.Note that we’re using Authentication version 2.0 with Keystone rather than tempauth.The following assume you already have both Opsview Server and OpenStack Object Storage (Swift) configured and running.Pre-requisite set up tasksThe machine running the check needs to have a Swift client and an Opsview Agent. If you plan to monitor from a Swift proxy server you should only need the latter; if you plan to execute the checks from your O

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