Pandora FMSInformix Monitoring

Informix monitoring plugin

© Artica Soluciones Tecnológicas 2005-2012

Index1Introduction........................................................................................................................................ 32Compatibility Matrix.......................................................................................................................... 43Plugin configuration & setup .............................................................................................................5

1 INTRODUCTION

This plugin allow you to monitor Informes. This is a local plugin, which uses Informix local tools to

gather information. This plugin perform several tasks:

• Get performance information from a Informix server. This needed the “onstat” tool,

credentials on the database to monitor and a full path to Informes binaries.

• Data of a filesystem (% free disk)

• Log file parsing.

• Availability information from an Informix server.

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2 COMPATIBILITY MATRIX

The plugin compatibility matrix is the following:

Systems where it has been tested • Solaris 10 SPARC V9 con Informix 11.7

Systems where it should work• Same system or higher. Any Informix

with onstat.

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3 PLUGIN CONFIGURATION & SETUP

• Install a Pandora FMS agent inside the machine which runs Informix server.

• Create and customize an specific plugin configuration file.

• Setup enviroment variables to be used by the pandora agent (depending on what user is

running the agent). This is an example:

INFORMIXDIR=/opt/IBM/informix; export INFORMIXDIR;PATH=$INFORMIXDIR/bin:$PATH; export PATH;INFORMIXSERVER=ol_informix1170; export INFORMIXSERVER;ONCONFIG=onconfig.ol_informix1170; export ONCONFIG;INFORMIXSQLHOSTS=$INFORMIXDIR/etc/sqlhosts.ol_informix1170; export INFORMIXSQLHOSTS;INFORMIXTERM=$INFORMIXDIR/etc/termcap; export INFORMIXTERM;LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$INFORMIXDIR/lib; export LD_LIBRARY_PATH;

• Define the plugin call in your pandora agent configuration file:

module_plugin Pandora_Plugin_Informix.pl /etc/pandora/sample.conf 2> infx_error.log

Its important to redirect error output to a local file, to check for errors in case of any problem.

There are some configuration tokens in the plugin configuaration file which needs to be explained:

For more information, see the sample configuration file provided in this plugin.

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