Anyone able to assist with APM monitoring of OpenVMS - CPU, memory, print/batch queues or processes using combinations of SNMP and/or scripting?
Many of these statistics can be obtained via SNMP using a Universal Device Poller. Have you tried that?
-Craig
Hey guys, is there an update on this post? I am curious as to who is doing this and to what success.
Once you enable SNMP on the OpenVMS system you should be able to monitor it no differently than any other host in Orion. You may also be able to use SAMs script monitors to gather even more information from these hosts.
The host resources mib is available once you have SNMP enabled giving you access to CPU / MEM performance. At least on our Alpha and Itanium machines. You can configure SNMP traps for other things.. while I'm not a VMS administrator, it is fairly well documented from DEC / HP on how.
I'm really struggling with monitoring log files of custom scripts on openVMS. I'm hoping someone here can shed light on how it can be done.
What I've tried:
So I'm obviously missing something. Following a KB article, I increased the timeout from 2 to 10 but honestly don't know if that has anything to do with this issue. Has anyone even successfully connected to an openVMS system with *any* SAM template?
Bear in mind openVMS gurus, I only know enough to be dangerous. Is there any special permissions the SSH user account needs to have?
**EDIT**
I think one of the root issues here is that SW SSH's into the server and tried to upload the script to execute. I can't find any log files anywhere, but I think the transfer is failing and that's what is causing the DoReceiveWaitPrompt timeout exception. If I try to SCP a file from one of our Linux servers to our VMS server, it fails with a "scp1 compatibility mode is not supported." error.
I might be able to find a work around in my terminal emulator, but I have no idea how to change the core behavior of the SAM template.
