FW: Nagios to monitor MQSeries

Volker.Aust at premiere.de Volker.Aust at premiere.de
Thu Feb 6 17:04:30 CET 2003


Sorry, I have forgotten the list...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Aust, Volker, PRE 
> Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 1:06 PM
> To: 'Detlef.Knop at gmx.de'
> Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Nagios to monitor MQSeries
> 
> 
> Hi Detlef,
> 
> when you install the MQSeries client (with developer 
> support), you get some sample programs. One of these sample 
> programs is "amqsailq", which lists the length of all 
> MQ-queues of a server. You can use "amqsailq" local or 
> remote. When you use this program (or a mofified version, 
> that only checks important queues like we do (a colleague has 
> modified some of the sample programs)) remote, you can make 
> two tests with one call:
> 
> - check the connectivity to the MQ-server and the -service
> 
> - check the length of some important queues (too many, too few, ...)
> 
> I have wraped the program in a shell script to generate the 
> Nagios stuff (return-code and output).
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> -vol
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Detlef.Knop at gmx.de [mailto:Detlef.Knop at gmx.de]
> > Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 7:40 AM
> > To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> > Subject: [Nagios-users] Nagios to monitor MQSeries
> > 
> > 
> > Dear all,
> > 
> > I would like to check whether MQSeries is available as a 
> > service on several
> > of my hosts. My first approach was to use the check_tcp 
> > plugin which from my
> > point of view worked fine. But the people looking after 
> > MQSeries on these
> > machines came back to me and complained that each time the 
> > plugin ran MQSeries
> > reported errors on these systems (two errors per check) 
> > because MQSeries
> > detects the incoming connection and wants to receive proper 
> > data, but then the
> > connection is closed.
> > 
> > Has anyone ever tried to do the same and found a solution? 
> > Maybe there is a
> > way using passive checks, or we might have to look into the 
> > possibility to
> > write a plugin.
> > 
> > Kind regards
> > 
> > Detlef Knop
> > 
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