I have a couple of AS/400's on site (model 720's) and I want to monitor disk space and CPU via ipMonitor. I know SNMP is working on the boxes as have had other SNMP utils able to pick up this info but there isn't a MIB available for ipMonitor.
Anyone doing this already?
Thanks.
For reporting purposes I've implemented CPU monitors but I've set their max value threshold to 100% so I never get alerts. Now that I've got some historical data on CPU averages I want to set my thresholds so I get alerts when I go above 10% average. I am having some trouble figuring out how the Last-Value and Short-Term thresholds work with one another. Would someone please provide a quick synopsis of how the two work with each other along with an example of how the accumulated failures per alert play into it? To put it into context, let's say I want to alert if my CPU hits 60% but only if it's been at higher than 40% for the last 5 minutes.
Thanks,
Hi there,
I'm not sure what this means:
Short-Term Threshold
This is the secondary threshold rate. It uses the test results accumulated over the period of time set within the Sample Size field to detect a steady increase in consumption or load versus a sudden spike.
Can someone explain please, with an example if possible. I'm configuring router bandwidth monitors and am unsure as to what this actually means.
Thanks.
In ipMonitor version 8 and earlier, I was able to configure event log monitors to send an alert only if it saw x number of entries that matched the search criteria. Essentially, if our web app threw one error, we'll review it in the morning. If it throws 5,10 or continuous errors in the event log, I want to send an email to the on-call phone.
I'm at a new position now and have installed a trial copy of ipMonitor 9 and am trying to configure the event log monitor to do the same thing. I works in finding the pattern but sends an email after only 1 event even though I have "Accumulated Failures per Alert" set to 5. In addition, while it sends an email, the monitor is never "down". I recall in earlier versions, the monitor would be down until the next test, say 5 minutes later.
We had a situation recently that has raised some questions. We have a spam filter that uses ldap to query for real accounts before allowing email in. A service account is used for the ldap query.
That password got changed/expired/something happened to it last night so all email was being blocked. When I looked at the account in AD the account was not locked out and the password was set not to expire. I re entered the password and tested LDAP with no issues.
Now here is my question, can you think of any way to setup monitoring using IP monitor to test if a certain account and password is working.
The site that we need to monitor uses HTTPS, and when we go to the site, it pops up a login box that asks for AD-ENT credentials.
How do I setup a monitor in ipMonitor that checks for this credentials request? I don't want the monitor to authenticate, I just need the monitor to check that the page is responsive and asks for AD-ENT credentials.
Thank you!
Hello All,
Good Evening!!
This is Dhyanesh Mehta, back again with another query. Is there any way we can generate a report to scan and find out which devices/servers have not been rebooted since last 30 days or lets say n number of days? If it is then will you please guide me how?
IP Monitor Version: 10.8.2
Please let me know in case more information is needed from my side.
Thanks,
Dhyanesh Mehta
Afternoon, everyone.
I'm using ipMonitor 9.01; I have a server that I'd like to monitor the World Wide Web Publishing Service on.
I know the service is running on the machine in question, but when I attempt to add the monitor, ipMonitor says it's not running.
Is there a way to force-add the monitor?
Thanks in advance,
NickG
I can't seem to figure out where to configure smtp to use SSL. I have given a credential set and setup for smtp.gmail.com with the proper port but it always fails to send.
I have a couple of AS/400's on site (model 720's) and I want to monitor disk space and CPU via ipMonitor. I know SNMP is working on the boxes as have had other SNMP utils able to pick up this info but there isn't a MIB available for ipMonitor.
Anyone doing this already?
Thanks.
We monitor processes via SNMP using a two line powershell script which does a snmpwalk of the current running processes on the target machines host_resource mib, returning a 0 or 1, depending it it finds the process or not. This simple script works for both Unix and Windows successfully however we have hit two problems.
The first, is that it cannot differentiate multiple processes by the same name.
The second problem is that the overhead of using powershell for these 20 external process monitors can be greater than ipmonitor itself which has over 3000 active standard monitors. I think this is because powershell is using CPU to actively check if the snmpwalk has come back yet, which can take a second or two.
Below is the simple but effective generic script which we pass the target server, community string and process name as parameters. It runs on the IPMONITOR host machine, requiring nothing installed on the target servers.
if (invoke-expression "d:\net-snmp\usr\bin\snmpwalk -v 1 -c $($args[0]) $($args[1]) 1.3.6.1.2.1.25.4.2.1.2" | select-string "$($args[2])") { Write-Host "FOUND"; exit 1 } else { Write-Host "NOT FOUND";exit 0 }
Does anyone have a better/faster/more effecive/alternate way of being able to solve or improve either of these issues?
Does anyone know if process monitoring, including monitoring multiple processes of the same name, will be added as a monitor type at any point in IPMONITOR's future?
Paul
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We have ipMonitor v9 (build 1236) running. It monitors a number of ADSL routers via Ping.
It would be great if we could get SNMP information from the routers to monitor the status of VPN connections run by the router (eg a Cisco 857).
Has anyone achieved this?
Thanks,
Chris.
I am curious if there is way to monitor things like toner low and paper out/ jam using OIDs. The current OID im using is straight from the SNMP search(1.3.6.1.2.1.25.3.5.1.2.1) and according to the decsription it should funtion properly. However, the values returned are not accurate and I am not informed when the toner is low or if paper is out. I have tested this by manually removing the paper and the toner low warning is already active. I have an HP 2840 colorjet that's Jetdirect compatible
I haven't spent to much time on this yet but is there a way that I can monitor a printer, such as toner levels or fuser, so when they get to a certain level I can setup an alert to go to who maintaines the printers? I have fooled around with searching the OID's but I am still trying to get a hang on those. Any help is appreciated...thanks.
Is it possible to monitor when a server reboots? I know that a Ping monitor will show when a server is no longer responding, but that could just indicate that there's a problem with the network, NIC, etc. and that the server may still be up and running. Ideally I would like to have an alert sent out via email if one of the servers actually performs a reboot. Thanks in advance.
Is there a simple way to create a monitor to check for the existance of a mapped drive?
I have a number of servers that keep coming up with "The remote device provided an empty list of values" for the CPU's
Is there any easy way to fix this ??
Hi,
Does anyone know if it's possible to raise an alert to IPMonitor from a C# application via snmp? Essentially to raise a status alert depending on severity of problem encountered.
I've done some research on this and cannot find anything conclusive, such as how to create my own OID perhaps that could be monitored by IIPMonitor.
Thanks
Richard.