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07-03-2015

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Self made monitoring application

Hi.. Looking for advice / feedback

Work in IT in an operational team, number of years ago, all monitoring was manual, vast checklists for unix checks, checking space, checking application processes, files etc. filling in spreadsheets etc.

I took some basic scripting courses in ksh and overtime built up my skills.
Eventually started scripting some of the manual checks and alerting to a global text file that was monitored instead.
A year later decided to go a step further as there was no money for commercial IT monitoring tools.

So I set up a freeware database on an old unix server, ran a webserver and Solaris.
Put all events in to tables and designed a relatively simple but effective web page as a front end, so alerts could be seen clearly in one view and alerts auto clear etc.

Everything is managed by scripts, monitors space, processes, server response, some web page response times, file flows, connects to a lot of remote servers to monitor critical metrics and alert.
Also have started putting in some capacity / performance monitoring using the db to record and Google charts for graphical representation ..

It would never replace a commercial tool for large companies, but I am wondering if there may smaller companies with say 50-100 servers that something like this may interest.
As its all pretty much ksh scripts on top of some of freeware I mentioned, it's not encoded / packaged so I'm not sure how to go about things even if there was interest.
There has been great feedback internally, especially as cost is extremely low, literally a basic server and my time.
We are now investing in commercial tools as company has expanded

Interested in your thoughts

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POLYGRAPH(7)							   User Commands						      POLYGRAPH(7)

NAME

       Polygraph - performance benchmark for web intermediaries

DESCRIPTION

       Web  Polygraph is a performance testing tool for caching proxies, origin server accelerators, L4/7 switches, content filters, and other Web
       intermediaries. Polygraph's features include:

	 * high-performance HTTP clients and servers
	 * realistic HTTP, FTP, and SSL traffic generation
	 * HTTP Basic, NTLM, and Negotiate proxy authentication
	 * LDAP-friendly generation of user credentials
	 * flexible content simulation
	 * ready-to-use standard workloads for benchmarking
	 * powerful domain-specific configuration language
	 * portable open-source implementation
	 * friendly commercial support

       Web Polygraph consists of many tools listed below. See individual man pages for more information. Detailed documentation  is  available	at
       www.web-polygraph.org.

       polygraph-aka - IP aliases manipulation tool

       polygraph-beepmon - forwards BEEP messages to an external program

       polygraph-cdb - content database manipulation tool

       polygraph-client - Web Polygraph client simulator

       polygraph-cmp-lx - log comparison tool

       polygraph-distr-test - distribution test

       polygraph-dns-cfg - DNS server configuration tool

       polygraph-lr - console log extractor

       polygraph-ltrace - trace extractor

       polygraph-lx - stats extractor

       polygraph-pgl2acl - translates PGL access rules into Squid Proxy ACLs

       polygraph-pgl2eng - PGL to English converter

       polygraph-pgl2ips - PGL IP addresses calculator

       polygraph-pgl2ldif - LDIF (and other text-based) configuration generator

       polygraph-pgl-test - PGL validator

       polygraph-pmix2-ips - PolyMix-2 address calculator

       polygraph-pmix3-ips - PolyMix-3 address calculator

       polygraph-polymon - interactive test monitoring tool

       polygraph-polyprobe - tests TCP throughput in a full client/server mesh

       polygraph-polyrrd - supplies run-time Polygraph stats to RRDtool

       polygraph-pop-test - predicts cache hit ratios for a given workload

       polygraph-reporter - HTML report generator

       polygraph-rng-test - random number generator test

       polygraph-server - Web Polygraph server simulator

       polygraph-udp2tcpd - converts UDP monitoring messages into a TCP stream read by polymon

       polygraph-webaxe4-ips - WebAxe-4 address calculator

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2003-2006 The Measurement Factory, Inc.

SEE ALSO

       polygraph-aka(1),    polygraph-beepmon(1),    polygraph-cdb(1),	  polygraph-client(1),	  polygraph-cmp-lx(1),	  polygraph-distr-test(1),
       polygraph-dns-cfg(1),	polygraph-lr(1),     polygraph-ltrace(1),     polygraph-lx(1),	   polygraph-pgl2acl(1),     polygraph-pgl2eng(1),
       polygraph-pgl2ips(1),  polygraph-pgl2ldif(1),  polygraph-pgl-test(1), polygraph-pmix2-ips(1), polygraph-pmix3-ips(1), polygraph-polymon(1),
       polygraph-polyprobe(1), polygraph-polyrrd(1),  polygraph-pop-test(1),  polygraph-reporter(1),  polygraph-rng-test(1),  polygraph-server(1),
       polygraph-udp2tcpd(1), polygraph-webaxe4-ips(1)

       http://www.web-polygraph.org/ - project web site

Web Polygraph							   February 2010						      POLYGRAPH(7)