[Kolab-devel] Cyrus and other process monitoring

Buchan Milne bgmilne at obsidian.co.za
Mon May 16 09:33:15 CEST 2005


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Fabio Pietrosanti wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> i'm thinking that would be an interesting feature of Kolab to support
> nativelly good monitoring capabilities trough snmp.
> 
> The snmp daemon could monitor a lot of activity of the server:
> - process availability
> - bandwith usage
> - memory usage
> - disk space usage
> - disk io activity
> 
> Also the cyrus server support directly snmp for advanced monitoring
> capabilities.
> 
> I compiled cyrus getting the snmp and snmpx package from openpkg
> environment along with the mrtg package.
> 
> So we would add 3 package, snmp, snmpx, mrtg to support directly good
> monitoring capabilities.
> Then via web could be possible to do everything, from issuing GetRequest
> of specific OID to monitor different aspects and create graphs to creare
> OID to start command via SetRequest (ie start/stop of a service).
> 
> I would like to integrate snmp daemon and mrtg and i would be glad to
> integrate it creating the configuration files and documenting it.

BTW, it is also possible to monitor OpenLDAP, via the "monitor" backend.
 Usually, this is done by using a perl script to search under cn=monitor
and return statistics useable by snmp.

Regards,
Buchan

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Buchan Milne                      Senior Support Technician
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