FW: Nagios to monitor MQSeries

[Volker.Aust at premiere.de]

I have talked about IBM MQSeries and I never said, that it was not an
proprietary product. I do not check MQ from the Nagios host (Solaris 8 x86).
I call my script (which calls a modified sample program) through NRPE on a
Solaris 9 Sparc host with a MQ Client:

$ pkginfo -l | fgrep -i mq
   PKGINST:  mqm
      NAME:  WebSphere MQ Client for Sun Solaris

$ ls -l /opt/mqm/samp/amqsailq.c
-r--r--r--   1 mqm      mqm        19373 Jun 14  2002
/opt/mqm/samp/amqsailq.c

The colleague have found/modified/written a program "queuedeep", that
queries the length of a single queue from the MQ-server. I have wraped this
program in a shell script to generate the error-code/output for Nagios.

-vol

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carroll, Jim P [Contractor] [mailto:jcarro10 at sprintspectrum.com]
> Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 7:11 PM
> To: 'wim at hsmade.com'; Aust, Volker, PRE
> Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: RE: FW: [Nagios-users] Nagios to monitor MQSeries
> 
> 
> MQSeries is similar to but different than SonicMQ.  The 
> latter is a JMS
> product by Sonic Software.  The former is an IBM product 
> using a proprietary
> standard.
> 
> We have both here; I wouldn't mind monitoring both of these natively.
> 
> Hm.  We don't seem to have the 'amqsailq' program.  What's 
> the default path
> to this?  I didn't find it under /opt/mqm nor under /usr (on 
> Solaris8).
> 
> $ pkginfo -l | grep -i mq
>    PKGINST:  mqjava
>       DESC:  MQSeries classes for Java and MQSeries classes 
> for Java Message
> Service
>    PKGINST:  mqm
>       NAME:  MQSeries for Sun Solaris 2
>    PKGINST:  mqm-upd03
>       NAME:  MQSeries for Sun Solaris 2 - U478291
>    PKGINST:  mqm-upd05
>       NAME:  MQSeries for Sun Solaris 2 - U481514
> 
> jc
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Wim Fournier [mailto:wim at hsmade.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 10:38 AM
> > To: Volker.Aust at premiere.de
> > Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> > Subject: Re: FW: [Nagios-users] Nagios to monitor MQSeries
> > 
> > 
> > Are you talking about Sonic MQ here?
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > > 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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> > Grtz,
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> > Wim Fournier
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