Category: Monitoring

Use svcmon to monitor V7000 SAN


I managed to set up the svcmon to monitor the V7000. Here is my how to: 1) Create passwordless SSH user svcmon Use ssh-keygen to generate a key pair, then create a new user named svcmon (in the admin group) in V7000 and grant the public key. 2) Install the svcmon, I wrote a bash … Continue reading Use svcmon to monitor V7000 SAN →

Install IBM V7000 Storage Management Pack in SCOM


1) Create a AD group (e.g IBM_V7000_Monitor) and add the SCOM service account in. Then link the AD group in the V7000 remote LDAP access.2) Download the IBM Storage MP from IBM fix central then install it on the SCOM server. Choose custom installation to remove the unnecessary components. In my case, I only install … Continue reading Install IBM V7000 Storage Management Pack in SCOM →

Check ESX Plugin for Nagios


Check ESX is a plugin developed by op5 to primarily be used with op5 Monitor, but can also be used in Nagios installations, to monitor VMware ESX and vSphere servers. You can monitor either a single ESX(i)/vSphere server or a VMware VirtualCenter/vCenter Server and individual virtual machines. If you have a VMware cluster you should … Continue reading Check ESX Plugin for Nagios →

Install syslog-ng on CentOS 6.3


syslog-ng is an open source syslog server that can be installed on many *nix servers. In my example, I installed it on a 64bit CentOS 6.3 server with minimal package. 1) Download and extract the source code. wget http://www.balabit.com/downloads/files?path=/syslog-ng/open-source-edition/3.4.0alpha3/source/eventlog_0.2.12.tar.gz wget http://www.balabit.com/downloads/files?path=/syslog-ng/open-source-edition/3.4.0alpha3/source/syslog-ng_3.4.0alpha3.tar.gz tar xvzf eventlog-0.2.12.tar.gz tar xvzf syslog-ng-3.4.0alpha3.tar.gz 2) Install dependencies. yum -y install kernel-headers* glibc-headers-* … Continue reading Install syslog-ng on CentOS 6.3 →