Hello all,
Can anybody explain me what are monitoring agents ?What is the concept behind it? How do people use it for service monitoring... such as connection monitoring etc...
Google produces very vague ans...Can anybody focus on actual concept?
Thank you
andreyka
10-13-2004, 06:35 AM
Please more exatly, I know snmp-monitoring agents and IDS-monitoring agents.
May be have lots of type monitoring agents...
Hello ,
Exactly the same !!! WHy do we need agents say e.g SNMP...Their wholesole purpose is to monitor a service and alert when it fails..am i right?
They are (agents)always running !! and try to find error ..
But ultimately ...Dose every monitoring tool uses agents?
What is concept? e.g snmp-agent..
How they are designed?
Please friend can u elaborate on any one u know ...
I asked a general one !!!
Thanks again
_goliath2
10-13-2004, 08:43 AM
One of SNMP agents, I've used is UCD-SNMP, now known as NET-SNMP. It runs as daemon and allows snmp-managers to collect information abowt network interfaces. There is also a trap sending tool which allows to send alert messages to managers if some event occurs.
andreyka
10-13-2004, 09:25 AM
Originally posted by atul
Hello ,
Exactly the same !!! WHy do we need agents say e.g SNMP...Their wholesole purpose is to monitor a service and alert when it fails..am i right?
Not exactly. Agents can give you traffic info, load server info, free space and ram, etc.
For monitoring service use nagios. It can sent you sms if server or service down.
What is concept? e.g snmp-agent..
How they are designed?
Please friend can u elaborate on any one u know ...
I asked a general one !!!
Thanks again
As example you have many servers. 20. You want view cpu load, memory/swap/ram usage in one window.
You install snmp on each server and give collect info in one.
I have a lots of expiriens with practical snmp usage.
Hello andreyka,
"As example you have many servers. 20. You want view cpu load, memory/swap/ram usage in one window.
You install snmp on each server and give collect info in one."
This is what I am looking for..
Can u give me some more info or Link which I can use to delve into subject !!
andreyka
10-13-2004, 09:58 AM
You need cacti :)
Google "cacti".
