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Monitoring for Linux server hung state

alankar.srivastava

Hello Folks,

Can solarwinds monitor/identify the server hung status? Any help much appreciated.

Thanks,

Alankar Srivastava

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Jfrazier

You are likely looking for some evidence the server is responding to some higher level external interaction.

If it is busy, SNMP is not a good choice as it gets dropped being a lower priority protocol. Ping is not viable because (and especially in todays virtual environments) a hung server can still have an interface that responds to a ping.

Thus you need simple remote command such as SSH to run a simple command or SCP to send a small test file. These are good tests since they require the system to login the user and interact with the system.

Hopefully this helps some or at least starts you down that path.

alankar.srivastava

Is solarwinds capable to monitor server hung state?

alankar.srivastava

Hello @Jfrazier,

Thanks for suggestion.

Below is the reply i received from support team. Solarwinds doesn't have feature to monitor server hung issues now.

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Node availabilty data was different from other polling collection for the Statistics. Like on the one shared earlier which no data for the Disk or for interfaces but there were data in some places such as application. You cannot consider this was Server hung because there were still data are being polled for other statistics.

If your looking literary for server hung state Orion does not have this such alert. Else i can send this to our developer as a feature request.

Thank you for your understanding.

Best Regards
Jhune Magbuo

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Regards,

Alankar

sum_giais

As mentioned above, a simple script monitor could achieve this. Support could be referring specifically to the fact there’s no built-in script or monitor that monitors for “Linux server hung state”. Which is true, but I’ll repeat so it gets conveyed (hopefully!) clear... a simple script monitor could achieve this.

All it would need to do is perform some minor system functions like establish an ssh session and run a few commands possibly. Simple tests that would verify system resources are functional like writing to a file in /tmp perhaps and more depending on your need as JFrazier noted above.

Some resources to get you started.

https://documentation.solarwinds.com/en/Success_Center/SAM/Content/SAM-Templates-LinuxUnix-create-monitor.htm

https://documentation.solarwinds.com/en/Success_Center/SAM/Content/SAM-Templates-Scripting-Write.htm

https://documentation.solarwinds.com/en/Success_Center/SAM/Content/SAM-Templates-LinuxUnix-scripting.htm