A couple of weeks I posted:
>
> I am looking for a program (set of programs) which
> is able to check the proper working of some workstations.
> I want check them for being up, not running out of disk space,
> existing of some special processes (e.g. named)
> and maybe some filtering of syslog.
>
> Detecting a problem should trigger an configurable reaction,
> like sending a mail message, forking off some process and so on.
>
> We have Suns and DECstations here, clients should be able
> to run on both, server doesn't matter.
>
Many thanks for your replies to:
- alan@nabeth.cxo.dec.com (Alan Rollow - Alan's Home for Wayward Tumbleweeds.)
- tim@andy.hssc.scarolina.edu (Tim White)
- marym@hol.Eng.Sun.COM (Mary Morris)
- navarro@azur.enet.dec.com (EIC Valbonne 10-May-1993 1405)
- meekj@pt.Cyanamid.COM (Jon Meek)
Short summaries:
- Tim White recommended "Watcher". It is very flexible and
allows to react on any command output you want it to.
I looked at it and was a little surprised that it has not
been updated for a few years now.
- Jon Meek as well was concerned about "Watcher" not being
updated since 1987. He started to do these things in perl
as he used it for other jobs already.
- Mary Morris recommended SunNet Manager. Using SNMP
you can check everything a (SNMP) client is available.
- Alan Rollow gave me the hint for a package in the
DEC ASSET library running. It runs on Ultrix only,
but he considered to convince my local DEC office for
a port. (Read on Alan: you may be surprised!)
He did not mention the name, but I think it is called
DCMX, an Ultrix port of the VMS DCM utility we already
use here.
- Jean Navarro told me that he works on an replacement for DCMX
called PSWX (Polycenter System watchdog for UNIX).
Short description from him:
> Client-server application composed of two part a consolidator installed on
> a central node which polls remote Agents installed on remote node to monitor.
> The consolidator automatically polls remote node through DECnet or TCP/IP
> and triggers actions routines which can be a
> - Character Cell Display
> - Graphical Display
> - DECmcc
> - Action routines like mail,beeper, logfile ...everything you
> want to be interfaced with
>
> The agents on remote node can detect the following events :
>
> - Hardware error (Cpu/disk/mem) by
> - Disk near full (threshold attached to a disk)
> - File size limit to monitor file size activity
> - process missing
> - process looping
> - printer stalled
> - Ethernet errors and collision
> - Interactive login limit
> - Network reachability pbs
> - mailq /swap/
> - customizable events using shell script to add your own events detectors
> The consolidator runs on ULTRIX and VMS , Agents runs on VMS, ULTRIX, SunOS,
> HP-UX and will run very soon on IBM.
My sales man denied it to be available right now but thought
it should be available mid-year. He had no idea about pricing
at that moment.
So well:
Right now I will continue to use "DCM" for checking our VMS stuff
(which I did not mention in my request). For the UNIX stuff and
our communication equipment I will use SunNet Manager of an
adjacent departement.
As available I will further investigate the DEC stuff. That is
because I do not want to go through the process of deciding
what to check from scratch, as with "Watcher" or some own
perl scripts.
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