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Monitoring Custom Application

I am new to Orion and need help in monitoring a custom application on an Ubuntu box. The custom application needs to be monitored beyond traditional ways of UP/DOWN status. I am going to ask the vendor to provide various status levels of the application. Vendor has no experience in building any SNMP MIB's etc but will do the coding if sufficient information is provided. How do I go about using a custom generic MIB for this application and have them update the MIB? Where do I find any Orion docs on how these MIB's are implemented in APM 4.2? Also, what programming language would the vendor use to build/update this MIB - C, C#, Python?

Sorry, lots of questions. I did some research on thwack but couldn't find a "how to monitor a custom application using a generic mib". Thanks in advance for your help.

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bobross

Can't help with specifics about mibs, but depending on what sort of information you are looking for the vendor should be able to add in things like log files (which APM can parse) or a --status command line switch.

danielleh

If you have a MIB that needs to be added to the MIB database, submit a ticket with support. This blog may also have some pertinent info you are looking for.

Thanks,
DH

solarnewbie

DH, will submit a ticket. But I don't think I have gotten that far yet. Still trying to figure out different means of monitoring a custom application on Ubuntu box. Looking at net-snmp but need a tutorial on it (other than net-snmp.org). Writing to a log file is an option but need to weigh pros and cons.

solarnewbie

bobross,

What do you mean by "status command line switch"? Any pointers or links would help. Thanks.

bobross

When you run a program, there are extra options that can be added...

grep --version

It might be easier for your software vendor to create one with --status or --curjobs or whatever to return the information that you want. You could then use a custom script to gather that data.