This week’s post is a technical workaround, from Opsview Community edition user Matthew White, for anyone experiencing an ODW_Status Warning in Opsview due to heavy server load.
Over to you Matthew…
Oct 31
Oct 27
Our latest release, Opsview Enterprise 3.14 edition, is out today!
As well as fixes and major enhancements, configuration changes are applied in half the time compared to previous releases for complex Opsview deployments. Continue reading »
Oct 24
Setting up distributed monitoring in mission critical production environments is a complex task; configuration can be challenging and mistakes costly. Opsview Enterprise edition and Opsview Syncmaster module make deploying an enterprise monitoring system easy and reduce the risks associated with migrating configuration objects from development to production environments. Here’s how: Continue reading »
Oct 17
There are just as many explanations to cloud services these days as there are cloud service providers. Regardless of the definition and the type of service (IaaS, SaaS, PaaS), the end result for IT is the same: infrastructure is extended off-premise. IT departments have another functionality requirement for their monitoring system as enterprises expand and resources become more dynamic.
As the uptake of cloud services increases, so does the pressure on IT to manage them. In a recent survey carried out by Opsview, 67% of organisations were concerned about the threat of cloud-sprawl. Fortunately, Opsview is ready to tackle any challenges presented by cloud monitoring. Continue reading »
Oct 10
It is often the case that hosts on your network will be similar, but differ in subtle ways depending on their exact purpose. For example some servers may have two internal disks whilst some may have just one, and some servers may have multiple ethernet cards where others do not. Opsview provides attributes to deal with situations like this, as they are a way of associating metadata with a host – here is an example of how to configure Opsview to use them. Continue reading »
Oct 05
So you followed the steps in the previous post about enabling SNMP traps on ESX4. Now you probably want to pick those up by something useful. Opsview can be configured to handle the traps quite easily. Just follow the steps below and your server will be listening to those pesky traps. After that, you’ll need to write a couple of service check handlers in Opsview to make sense of the traps. More on that later. This post is just about picking them up. Continue reading »
Oct 03
This post outlines how to get SNMP traps from ESX hosts and monitor them in Opsview. The first part deals with configuring SNMP traps to get them working correctly with ESX hosts, part 2 tells you how to monitor them with Opsview.
The following steps worked on ESX 4.1. Depending on versions you may have different results. For simplicity, I used 10.0.0.1 as IP for my ESX host, and 10.0.0.99 for my SNMP trap handler. Continue reading »
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