Monitoring Quovadx

[Thibault Genessay]

Hi

Rusty Hall wrote:
>     Has anyone tried to monitor Quovadx on windows 2003 using nagios. I 
> have been unable to monitor the application as it sits on a linux 
> enviroment on a windows server.  There are no OIDS to monitor for 
> Quovadx.  I am at a bit of a loss and need to figure out a way to 
> monitor the application.  I can monitor server health, but I have no 
> eyes into the application itself.  Any help with this would greatly 
> appreciated
>  
>  
> Rusty

I don't know for this specific application, but there are generally 
several approaches you can use to tackle your problem. This application 
can either have a built-in support for monitoring, or not (too many 
cases sadly ...)

You say it does not because there are no OIDs, but have you looked at 
WMI ? It might define a schema and a bunch of classes. Otherwise, are 
there any kind of maintenance, or status scripts ? If there are, you can 
wrap them into a check plugin.

If it actually does not have any means of being monitored directly, then 
you can monitor it indirectly. This means:
- looking for the process(es). This can be done with WMI or any simple 
process monitoring plugin.
- looking for open ports, if it does use some (check_tcp)
- looking for database accesses if it uses an external DBMS. For 
instance MS SQL provides counters for the number of connections
- simulating web accesses if it provides a web front-end (check_http)
- looking for opened files/handles
- ...
If one of those check is not enough, all of them should give you quite a 
good overview of the health of the application.

Hope this gives you ideas

Regards


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