SysOrb Network Monitoring System Administrator's Guide

For version 3.6.0

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Table of Contents

Abstract

1. System Overview

1.1. SysOrb Components
1.2. How It Works

2. System Requirements

2.1. Agent Requirements
2.2. Server Requirements

3. Installing SysOrb

3.1. Installing the SysOrb Server

3.1.1. Microsoft Windows XP / Server 2003 / Server 2008
3.1.2. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
3.1.3. Debian Linux 5.0 and other Debian based systems
3.1.4. SuSE Linux Enterprise 11
3.1.5. Solaris 8, 9 and 10

3.2. Installing a license file

3.3. Upgrading the SysOrb Server

3.3.1. Importing the default NodeClasses
3.3.2. Upgrading from earlier than 3.0.3

3.4. Installing the SysOrb Agent

3.4.1. Microsoft Windows XP / Server 2003 / Server 2008
3.4.2. Microsoft Windows NT / 2000
3.4.3. Microsoft Windows Server 2003 on Itanium
3.4.4. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
3.4.5. Red Hat Linux 7.2, 7.3, 8 and 9
3.4.6. Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 and other Debian based systems
3.4.7. Debian GNU/Linux 2.2, 3.0 and 4.0
3.4.8. Mandrake Linux 9.0
3.4.9. SuSE Enterprise Linux 11
3.4.10. SuSE Linux 8.2 and SuSE Linux 9.0
3.4.11. FreeBSD 6.0
3.4.12. Sun Solaris 8, 9 and 10
3.4.13. IBM AIX 5.3
3.4.14. Novell NetWare 5.1 and 6.0

3.5. Upgrading LogChecks from SysOrb 2.4.0

3.6. Unattended installation on Windows

4. Auto-upgrading the SysOrb Agent

4.1. Auto-upgrade with SysOrb Satellites

5. SysOrb Server Configuration

5.1. Microsoft Windows NT / 2000

5.2. Unix-like systems (FreeBSD, Linux and Solaris)

5.3. Configuration Options Reference

5.3.1. Logging Options
5.3.2. Database Options
5.3.3. Network Connection Manager Options
5.3.4. NetCheck Manager Options
5.3.5. General SysOrb Server Options
5.3.6. Alert Dispatcher Options
5.3.7. SNMP Options
5.3.8. Grid Options

5.4. Troubleshooting HTTPS/IMAPS/POP3S problems

6. SysOrb Web Interface Configuration

6.1. General Web Interface Options

7. SysOrb Web Server Configuration

7.1. Web Server Configuration Reference

7.1.1. File Options
7.1.2. Logging
7.1.3. Server/network options

8. SysOrb Agent Configuration

8.1. Agent Configuration Reference

8.2. Releasing keys to force registering at SysOrb server

8.2.1. Releasing on agent
8.2.2. Releasing on server

8.3. Configuration of custom checks

8.4. Configuration of AgentActions

8.5. Configuration of LogChecks

8.6. Enabling IPMI hardware monitoring

9. Grid configuration

9.1. Grid overview

9.1.1. Grid IDs - the GID
9.1.2. Links
9.1.3. Endpoint security

9.2. Configuring the Master

9.2.1. Installation and licensing
9.2.2. Configuring the master station
9.2.3. Adding a satellite to the master's configuration
9.2.4. Configuring the link between the master and the satellite
9.2.5. Exporting domains to the satellite

9.3. Configuring the Satellite

9.3.1. Installation and licensing
9.3.2. Configuring the satellite station
9.3.3. Adding the master to the satellite's configuration
9.3.4. Configuring the link between the satellite and the master
9.3.5. Mounting domains from the master

9.4. Getting started with remote monitoring

10. SysOrb Server maintenance

10.1. Adding MIB files

10.2. Custom NetChecks

10.2.1. Configuring Custom NetChecks

10.3. Custom AlertPaths

10.3.1. Script environment

10.4. Creating a new database

11. SysOrb Import and Export tools

11.1. sysorb-exporter
11.2. sysorb-importer
11.3. Examples of how to use

12. SysOrb Tool

12.1. The select command

12.1.1. How to specify the timeformat

12.2. The insert command

12.3. The listdomains command

12.4. The listnodes command

12.5. The listchecks command

12.6. The listproperties command

12.7. The update command

12.8. Understanding the CSV file-format

12.8.1. Continuous checks
12.8.2. State checks
12.8.3. String checks

12.9. Example scripts

13. Acknowledgments

13.1. GD Graphics Library

13.2. OpenSSL Library

13.2.1. OpenSSL License
13.2.2. Original SSLeay license

List of Examples
8-1. Good/bad check
8-2. Numeric integer check
8-3. Numeric real check
8-4. Differential numeric integer check
8-5. Differential numeric real check
8-6. Script outputting Response time: 1234 ms
8-7. Count the number of files in /tmp
8-8. IIS restart AgentAction
8-9. LogCheck declaration file
10-1. Custom NetCheck
11-1. Exporting contents of the Test domain
11-2. Contents of the exported file
11-3. Modified XML file, ready for import
11-4. Creating a node using sysorb-importer
12-1. Example extracting all data using bash
12-2. Example extracting all data on Windows

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