For most companies websites are their corporate face to the world. Any downtime can be costly especially if the sites are used for e-commerce. Web monitoring checks can be set up quickly and easily in Opsview giving you powerful alerting capabilities to check on crashed servers, website attacks and more. Here are 10 easy steps to set up website monitoring in Opsview: Continue reading »
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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.
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.
Oct 31
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 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 »
Sep 26
IT monitoring has become the most strategically important part of any enterprise process reliant on technology. Any network failure or server outage will impact an organisation’s ability to do business, and therefore, its bottom line.
Using the right tools to monitor your IT is vital not only to the continued health of your IT operations but also to the overall performance of your business. For this reason your monitoring solution must be stable and reliable with a track record of deployment in large scale production environments. This post outlines 10 reasons why choosing the right toolset is paramount to assuring overall business performance. Continue reading »
Sep 12
Over the last couple of years we have seen an increase in port-density on server-hardware and currently the quad-nic (4 port network interface card) seems to be the standard. These cards allow for some great features like bonding (on *nix) or nic-teaming (on Windows) where multiple interfaces are bundled together or setup as fail-overs. It also allows you to nicely split your networks into multiple segments like management and production with each network connected over dedicated NICs as shown below…
Sep 06
Freeware IT monitoring tools are used by thousands of organisation worldwide however using them to monitor complex network, server and application installations can be quite a challenge. This blog post takes the basic capabilities of one such tool, Nagios® Core, and shows how you can scale it with Opsview for use in enterprise environments.
Aug 30
Many freeware IT monitoring tools are great but using them to manage complex systems can be a real challenge. It can also be unforgiving on anyone less than expert in configuring the system with mistakes being punished by a complete stop in monitoring activity.
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