[hobbit] WebSphere Monitoring

[Allan Spencer]

James Wade wrote:
> Hi Allan,
>
> I tried adding another logfile monitor today,
> and I didn't have much success. I put it on
> both the client side and server side, but it
> never seemed to send any data.
>
> HOST=myhost
>      LOG /opt/WebSphere/AppServer3/log/Weblog.out
>
> Put it in the localclient.cfg on the client, and
> in the hobbit-clients.cfg on the server.
>
> I was looking for things to monitor in the log file.
> Any suggestions for most failing types for Websphere?
> What's the script that calls the server status?
>
> Is there something that will give me the server status
> for every instance running, or do I have to know
> the port numbers and instances?
>
> Thanks...James
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Allan Spencer [mailto:allan at zandahar.net] 
> Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 4:22 PM
> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> Subject: Re: [hobbit] WebSphere Monitoring
>
> James Wade wrote:
>   
>> Does anyone monitor any Websphere Logs?
>>
>> I'm looking for suggestions on monitoring them.
>>
>> Thanks.James
>>
>>     
> Anything in particular you want to test for ? You can run a script that 
> calls the serverstatus command and then greps the output. Otherwise you 
> can use the logfile monitoring and add rules to match against the error 
> codes you want reported
>
> Allan
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My suggestion would be to have a hunt through man pages and the mailing 
list archives at http://www.hswn.dk/hobbiton/ for some of the threads 
about log monitoring
Error codes could be fun although if you know of some error that happens 
then you can grab that one particular code and string and monitor for 
that, but otherwise for me or anyone else to be able just hand over any 
old codes to monitor would be far from ideal.

As for the status script its located in the AppServer/bin directory 
called serverStatus.sh
If you call it as 'serverStatus.sh -all' it will give you a status about 
all the individual servers but only running or started
Only thing youd have to do form there is turn it into a form of hobbit 
script although there may already be one out there on http://www.deadcat.net

Allan