Is there documentation for setting up the shared key enviroment for Solarwids APM module for use with nagios plugins, sorry but I'm a unix guy.
Never mind I think I found what I needed.
Could you explain what you found, since other people will read this thread and be interested.
Well I'm not sure that I've found a solution more of an assumption than anything else, but under credential settings I'm assuming that creating a user that resides on the remote system (being one of my Red Hat boxes) with login and password will allow APM to login to the system and run the commands remotely. Maybe you can verify this for me.
Thanks
Actually that was a large assumption. I may have been correct on the credential part but I'm not fully understanding the APM piece. The documentation touches on ScriptProcessorForNagios.pl but thats about it unless it's discussed further down in the documentation.
You'll have to forgive me I've been using Nagios for about 6 years and I'm not fully convinced Solarwinds is the right tool for application monitoring for Unix/Linux YET.
The questions that I have are... Does this function like nagios ssh or nagios nrpe in the sense that all the plugins need to reside on the remote system or does it function in the sense that I copy a nagios perl script in the script body when setting up the template and Orion actually logs into the system via ssh and runs the code on the remote systemand returns status values
If it's the later whats the purpose of the script working directory? If it's that it runs like ssh or nrpe then the script working directory is self explanatory
With APM's unix/linux monitor, you copy the script into the monitor, and APM stores it in the database. Each time it polls, it will push the script via SSH into the specified directory and execute it. Consequently, you do not need to have the script already on the server. That said, you could write a very simple script that says, execute script "foo" in the specified directory, assuming that it's already sitting there.
The Nagios coverter will run the Nagios script that you specify and convert the output into APM format.
