Linux
Utilizes well known command line utilities such as vmstat and ps to extract information about a Linux system. Along with Oracle and other Unix agents it is a good example for creating your own custom monitoring data providers.
Local/Remote Modes
The agent can be run locally using a telnet or ssh session or in remote mode on the target machine under the Host Manager.
Supported Versions
The agent has been specifically tested with RedHat Linux 9 and RedHat AS 3, although it can be used as a good base for writing custom monitoring agents for any Unix based systems.
Configuration
No additional configuration is required to run this agent. However a prerequisite is that the following utilities must be present on the system: iostat, mpstat, df, vmstat, ps and netstat.
The agent configuration depends on the 'Process Execution Mode' as follows:
- Normal: the agent is executed under the Host Manager, no other configuration required
- Telnet:
- Username: the username to use for the telnet session.
- Password: the password to use for the telnet session.
- Port: the port number where the telnet daemon is configure to listen to on the remote host; it defaults to 23.
- UsernamePrompt: the prompt for the username used by the telnet session.
- PasswordPrompt: the password prompt used by the telnet session.
- ShellPrompt: the shell prompt used by the telnet session.
- NOTE: You can use a terminal emulator like Putty to open a telnet connection and find out the username, password, and shell prompt.
- SSH2:
- Username: the username to use for the SSH2 session.
- Password: the password to use for the SSH2 session.
- Port: the port number where the SSH2 daemon is configure to listen to on the remote host; it defaults to 22.
Contents
The agent provides the following information:
- Per CPU data: on multiple processor systems contains usage detailed per each CPU.
- I/O Data: holds statistics about read and write operations to devices.
- File System Data: contains details about Linux's file systems.
- System Data: contains global system information, such as memory and processor usage.
- Process: holds details for each running process.
- Network interfaces: contains information about network interfaces.
- Network protocols: contains details for each network protocol.