Dec 12
Apache Solr is an open source enterprise search service from the Lucene project. Solr is written in Java and runs as a standalone full-text search server within a servlet container such as Tomcat.
Like any service or component in your architecture, you’ll want to monitor it to ensure that it’s available and gather performance data to help with tuning.
In this post, we’ll look at how we can monitor Solr, what performance metrics we might want to gather and how we can easily achieve this with Opsview.
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Tagged with: agentless checks • apache solr • JMX • Lucene • Nagios • nrpe • Opsview
Dec 05
Parenting is one of the many powerful network monitoring tools that can be deployed in Opsview. However parenting is quite often misunderstood or deployed incorrectly causing the intended goal (less notifications when detecting network failures) to be missed and flooding mailboxes with undesirable e-mail alerts. This blog post outlines the steps involved in setting up Basic Parenting in Opsview.
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Tagged with: layer 3 • network monitoring • Traceroute • VLAN • VPN
Nov 14
Uprooting the Opsview Master server is probably last on every administrator’s to-do list. But it’s not a perfect world and extenuating circumstances may require the master to be positioned elsewhere.
Here are 10 steps to move an Opsview master server and limit downtime during the relocation of your IT monitoring system.
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Tagged with: Apache • backup • DevOps • Install Opsview • IT monitoring • master server • MySQL
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 »
Tagged with: attributes • Configuration • distributed monitoring • notification • SNMP • syncmaster • templates
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