scottwilkerson / nagios-for-i

nagios-for-i

Description

Nagios provides enterprise-class Open Source IT monitoring, network monitoring, server and applications monitoring.
We provide several customized plugin for monitoring IBM i systems.
You could refer to the this link for more details.

The nagios plugin for i has two methods.

• You can run the plugin with a daemon server to handle and dispatch the request to worker thread.
  You could start the daemon server by script server_start.sh.
• You can also run the plugin without the server. Then every request will be handled by seperate processes. It would be more simple but consumes more resources.

The plugins suport to mornitor following martix

  plugin            martix

  CPU               Retrieve the CPU utilization for the entire system

  SpecificJobCPU    Retrieve the CPU usage for a specific job

  DiskUsage         Retrieve the disk usage status

  DiskConfig        Retrieve the disk health status

  ASPUsage          Retrieve the ASP usage percentage of the entire system

  ActiveJobs        Retrieve the number of active jobs on the system

  BasicInfo         Retrieve the basic information of an IBM i system

  CurSignOnUsers    Retrieve the number of users that currently log on to the system

  LongRunSQL        Retrieve the longest running SQL

  Message           Retrieve the messages from a specific message queue

  SpecificMessage   Retrieve the status whether a specific message ID is found in a specific message queue

  PageFaults        Retrieve the page faults

  SubsystemJobs     Retrieve job information in a specific subsystem

  CustomSQL         The user could leverage SQL services to create self-defined matrix

  TempStorageJobs   Retrieve top N jobs that have the most temp storage usage

  DaemonServer      Retrieve the daemon server status

Installation and upgrade

For the version of Nagios Core, you could install the latest plugins by service pack in directory service pack.
You could take Nagios Plugin for IBM i Install and Configure Guidelines.txt for detail steps.

For the version of Nagios XI, the plugin for IBM i has already been integrated in XI. You could update the plugins by install the latest wizard file in Wizard for NagiosXI/ibmiservice.zip.