Sonic EventMonitor Monitoring your Sonic environment Tako Grijpma Progaia Resource Solutions 09 november 2006

© 2006 Progress Software Corporation2 Agenda  Introduction  Usage  What to do with the information  Log4J overview  Zabbix  Demo – Sonic EventMonitor & Zabbix Monitoring your Sonic environment

© 2006 Progress Software Corporation3 Sonic EventMonitor – Introduction  Available from Sonic V7  Separate product (license)  Replacement/Alternative to Netmon  Works by polling a collections monitor, and relaying the results to Log4J  Reduce the amount of coding necessary Monitoring your Sonic environment

© 2006 Progress Software Corporation4 Sonic EventMonitor - Usage  Create a Container for EventMonitor components Not required but a good idea Helps with development/management Things like log files are relative to container  Create a Component Collection Add the components and select the metrics/notifications to log  Create a Collections Monitor Specify the collection(s) to be monitored  Create a Logger Component Import log4j properties file into DS Add collections monitor, log4j configuration, log message format, polling frequency, history, etc. Monitoring your Sonic environment

© 2006 Progress Software Corporation5 Sonic EventMonitor - Usage Folder, Container, Component Collection, Collection Monitor, Logging Component Collection being monitored Log4j config file, data format, delimiter, polling frequency, history

© 2006 Progress Software Corporation6 Sonic EventMonitor - Usage  Metrics Minimum interval is 60 sec. Sends data every 60 seconds  Notifications Minimum interval is 60 sec. Sends data only when a defined threshold is exceeded  Max-lookback period If the logger is disconnected, controls how much history is kept.  Log4j properties / Xml file Control the formatting of log messages Also control where files are put, log levels etc. Monitoring your Sonic environment

© 2006 Progress Software Corporation7 Sonic EventMonitor – Log4J overview  Logger A component used to collection information  Levels Severity/category of logging data. DEBUG, INFO, WARN, ERROR and FATAL  Appenders Something that takes log information and appends it to a store.  Layouts Things that control the format of log messages  Configuration Many/most things are configurable through properties files  Website Monitoring your Sonic environment

© 2006 Progress Software Corporation8 Sonic EventMonitor - Zabbix  Open Source Monitoring Tool  Zabbix Agents Runs on monitored server  Zabbix Server Collects data from agents/SNMP Raises flags / triggers / events  Zabbix Frontend html / Php Monitoring your Sonic environment

© 2006 Progress Software Corporation9 Sonic EventMonitor - Demo Monitoring your Sonic environment

© 2006 Progress Software Corporation10 Sonic EventMonitor - Demo  Demo – Sonic EventMonitor & Zabbix Monitoring your Sonic environment

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