Hi fellow thwackers
I am in a bit of a pickle. i am setting up a customer monitoring environment, and i need to ensure i am not polling too much or collecting too much information as it adds so much strain to the database
the environment is around 300 servers.
each server runs about 5 processes that need to be monitored for availability and performance
however, the problem is, there are some that spawn 10 child processes, so APM will bring them all back of SNMP< and record performance stats against them. What i want to do, on a process by process basis, is state whether ALL i care about is the parent, i.e. the one that is owned by ROOT user.
what do you think? alternative, will be that i can somehow tell SolarWinds to only pull information back about the parent process, but nothing about children, except a count of them (so one can alert if no. is less than 1 etc)
any thoughts?
key goal here is to ensure i only collect interesting performance stats, reduce polling as far as possible but still deliver a service
cheers
toilet
