[mrtg] Re: mrtg used for monitoring services

[Koelstra, J. (Jan)]

Giuseppe,

On a basic Windows machine you can monitor some items. However with the SNMP-informant (http://www.snmp-informant.com/) there are more things to monitor.
The free 'standard' version gives cpu, disk, memory and network counters. If you want to monitor SQL counters as well you need the sql agent (which is not free).

MRTG is designed to graph network traffic counters, and can graph all kinds of other counters as well. An add-on is the threshold checking that can be done.
If you want to graph a service being up or down the result will be a graph with only 2 values. Probably '1' for up and '0' for down. IMHO such a graph is not very usefull.
Of course it is possible to set a threshold check on this graph which sends an alert when the graph gets to zero, but I agree with John: There are better tools for alerting you when a service goes down.

HTH,

Jan.


-----Original Message-----
From: mrtg-bounce at list.ee.ethz.ch [mailto:mrtg-bounce at list.ee.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Giuseppe Parlato
Sent: Monday, April 03, 2006 9:19 AM
To: mrtg at list.ee.ethz.ch
Cc: John Oliver
Subject: [mrtg] Re: mrtg used for monitoring services


Why not? there's not a MIB for apache for instance? and maybe there is also
for other services we can monitor..

Giuseppe

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From: "John Oliver" <joliver at john-oliver.net>
To: <mrtg at list.ee.ethz.ch>
Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2006 5:11 AM
Subject: [mrtg] Re: mrtg used for monitoring services


On Sat, Apr 01, 2006 at 04:20:00PM +0200, Giuseppe Parlato wrote:
> Is there a way for monitoring services running on linux (sip server
> for
> instance) or NT server (http, https, sql) using mrtg? ..and then send a
> mail if service goes down?

No.

Look at Big Brother or Nagios.

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