Possible to return multiple statistics with a single UNIX script

akoester

Question first:

Is it possible to use APM to run a UNIX script and return multiple statistics and then display them in a graph together for comparison purposes?  Or do I have to gather the statistics separately and then create a report to combine the data into a graph for the execs?

 

The longer explanation (in case someone thinks I am going in the entirely wrong direction)

The higher ups want a regular report that compares the performance of our customer-facing DNS servers versus various public DNS servers.

The thought was to put a UNIX box with a static ip address behind one of our cable modems, and then run a script, or series of scripts that tries to resolve a given url against several DNS servers.  Take that data and compare.

 

Any ideas from the greater community of smart peeps?

jiri.tomek

Hello akoester,
script monitor can return only one numeric statistic so you can't use one monitor to get multiple values. You have to set up one monitor for each DNS server and then you can create some custom report that will compare those values.