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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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cmstopres

cmstopres(1m)															     cmstopres(1m)

NAME

       cmstopres - stops resource monitoring on the local node for an EMS resource that is configured in a Serviceguard package.

SYNOPSIS

       cmstopres [-v] -p package_name resource_name

DESCRIPTION

       cmstopres stops resource monitoring for an EMS resource on the local node.  This resource must be configured in the specified package_name.

       To  stop  a  resource  monitoring  for  an EMS resource in the package, a user must either be superuser(UID=0), or have an access policy of
       FULL_ADMIN allowed in the cluster configuration file. See access policy in cmquerycl(1m) or cmmakepkg(1m).

   Options
       cmstopres supports the following options.

	      -v	Verbose output will be displayed.

	      -p package_name
			The name of the package where the EMS resource is configured in.  This is a required parameter.

	      resource_name
			Name of the EMS resource to stop resource monitoring for.  This resource must be configured in the specified package name.
			This is a required parameter.

RETURN VALUE

       cmstopres returns the following values:

	       0   Successful completion.
	       1   Command failed.

EXAMPLES

       To stop resource monitoring for the EMS resource /net/interfaces/lan/status/lan0 for package pkgA, do the following:

	      cmstopres -p pkgA /net/interfaces/lan/status/lan0

AUTHOR

       cmstopres was developed by HP.

SEE ALSO

       cmstartres(1m), cmquerycl(1m), cmmakepkg(1m),

						      Requires Optional Serviceguard Software					     cmstopres(1m)