Custom Network Monitoring
One issue you may run into on newer Linux distros is that SELinux will likely prevent Xymon from working properly if you compile it from source.
In order to get Xymon talking with Apache and running its network tests, you’ll need to make some changes.
I’ve outlined my process for this below. [Read more…]
One of my clients has a number of individual Dell servers running VMWare ESXi 6.5 and they asked me if there was a way to add them into their existing Xymon monitoring system.
After looking around on the Internet I realized there was no ready-made solution available so I ended up digging into the internals of ESXi to figure out how we could monitor their ESXi install base using Xymon.
Read on to learn how I created a native Xymon monitor for VMWare ESXi that runs as a service directly on the server itself. [Read more…]
Recently I rolled out BBWin (v0.13) to over 20 new Windows servers for one of my clients and I ran into a few snags that I thought might be helpful to discuss here.
Read on to learn about some BBWin and Xymon tips and tricks I picked up along the way. [Read more…]