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How to monitor Sun Solaris server?

Hi all,
I need to monitor some Sun Solaris server using Orion Network Performance, but it seems very difficult. i want to monitor network interface, HDD volumes, CPU, memory, ... but what i can monitor now is only network interface. So if any one know how to solve this problem, please advice me. Thank you very much.
Kha
ldkha@177tel.com.vn

Kha

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djeffrey

Here is a depressing observation. In the new V7 demo web site, the demo Sun server, FreeBSD server does not even work. If that is case then how are we ever to get this to work with any UNIX system?

Darren

ldkha

Any body help me! hichic! How to monitor SUN boxes? Any one has experience? Help me! Thx a lots.

Kha

gallo007

I have had some success monitoring Sun servers through the use of Net-SNMP (UCD-SNMP) http://www.net-snmp.net/ It allows you to run the Host Resources MIB on your Sun servers. I am able to get disk, network and memory monitoring to work but I can’t get CPU for some reason.
I am still running Orion 6.4 so I'm not sure if this is still valid for 7.0.

Mike

Dagwood

Without an SNMP Agent that provides access to the Host-Resource-Mibs, all you see is the Interface and some In/Out Traffic stats. You'll need to purchase or compile your own Agent in order to utilize Orions capabilities.

I use the SNMP Research CIAgent on my HPUX 10 and 11i servers. It's not cheap at $600 US each, but it works well.

I also found and compiled a "Freebie" TCL based SNMP
Scotty Daemon that allows access to the Host-Resourse Mib called Snmpd located here: http://geekcorp.com/snmpd I used it successfully on my HP devices, but it does have a small problem when reporting Memory Utilization. It's a known issue where the Memory Utilization continually increases acting like a Memory leak yet if you reboot the agent it resets itself. I was unable to find a fix for it but if you can live with it, it will allow you access to the Disks, CPU and additional information available via Orion.

Let us know if you have any sucess with it for the Suns.

chandih

I ran into the same issue. I ended up downloading and installing net-snmp, which allows me to monitor disk usage, memory and swap. I was not able to monitor CPU (which is really what I wanted the most). You may have to have a tool other then solarwinds to monitor that part. I am looking at orca (http://www.orcaware.com) to fill in these gaps (it's free!).