Monitoring
By default, Xymon’s trends show metrics for the last 48 hours. Should you want to “only” get the last 24 hours on the main “trends” page, you have to edit the xymon/server/etc/xymonserver.cfg and edit or add the TRENDSECONDS variable. 86400 will render only the last 24 hours.
Note that TRENDSECONDS is optimized for the default RRDWIDTH and INTERVAL values. Setting random or too small TRENDSECONDS may lead to ugly graphics rendering.Continue reading...
VMware provides a CLI and a Perl SDK that allows managing and monitoring vSphere and ESXi environment from Windows and Linux. The Perl SDK is also available in the FreeBSD ports tree.
Here’s how to install and, basically, use the VMware Perl SDK on FreeBSD.Continue reading...
Here’s a bunch of quick notes about installing Xymon on a Debian server using the tiny/turbo/throttling HTTP server. It is not that complicated but there are a few things to tweak to have it running.Continue reading...
Nexenta has SNMP capability. Configured from the Web interface, you can set the various communities for SNMP version. But there is more. You can improve it a lot using the Nexenta Management Console (NMC).Continue reading...
I already configured Munin to monitor my Synology DS409slim . Today, I’m going to configure Munin to monitor my Apple Airport Extreme, using SNMP.Continue reading...