Hello, We are evaluating Orion with APM for suitability of our infrastructure which is a mixture of Windows, Cisco, Solaris and Linux devices. I am a bit surprised to find the lack of a host agent which allows communication between management server and host. Since it looks like SNMP is the only option, I have compiled/installed/configured net-snmp on my Solaris host and we are getting "standard stuff" like cpu/memory/disk support. I am interested in implementing a more flexible framework for monitoring specific resources based on the NET-SNMP-EXTEND-MIB per the following URL http://www.logix.cz/michal/devel/nagios/ .
I have a bourne shell script on my Solaris host which checks the status of the Solaris Volume Manager. I have modified my snmpd.conf file and added the following line:
extend SVM /usr/local/bin/check_SVM
and cycled the snmp service.
Now from another Linux system with the net-snmp tools installed I can invoke an snmpget as follows:
[root@zeus Downloads]# snmpget -v2c -c tellmeso yertle NET-SNMP-EXTEND-MIB::nsExtendOutputFull.\"SVM\"
and receive the following response.
NET-SNMP-EXTEND-MIB::nsExtendOutputFull."SVM" = STRING: OK: metadevices look good. metadbs look good.
Now I can invoke a script on my Unix host via snmp and things seem at least potentially possible for customizing and adding more functionality.
My question is:
How can I implement this in APM to create a new Application Template? Is there a developers toolkit?
A little help here would be appreciated.
Thanks and regards,
Greg Forester Unix Administrator
