How do you monitor your management solution? How do you ensure that the monitoring solution is working as expected? As this is a commonly repeated activity, there should be some best practices. What works in the field? Any thoughts on how to monitor the Smarts solution and related components are appreciated.
In the projects I’ve involved in, typically a collection of scripts are often developed as part of the implementation project or later by the administrators of the solution. I personally have not witnessed use of system/application management tools such as Tivoli/Patrol/NetIQ, etc. to monitor the monitoring solution probably because of financial/organizational reasons.
RapidWatcher is our attempt to provide an infrastructure to implement monitoring solutions quickly. It is released as an open source (free) tool and available from our website. It stands on the shoulders of several well respected open source tools such as Jetty, rife, groovy, etc. to handle most common parts of implementing a monitoring solution such as providing a web based interface, and an RSS feed and ability to send emails, instant messages,etc. when there is a problem. What’s left is the logic/script to monitor your particular environment. Sample scripts to monitor EMC Smarts InCharge servers, web servers, etc are also included both as examples and to jump start monitoring of a Smarts solution. We hope to improve the Smarts related monitoring implementation based on the provided feedback.
Hope you find RapidWatcher useful. Looking forward to your feedback and suggestions.
