Monitoring Capabilities

Takeaway

Mutiny includes templates and adaptors to recognise vendor devices and set them up automatically

What does Mutiny monitor?

We are often asked this question and basically Mutiny can monitor anything to a certain degree. We use SNMP to "get" the information we need and then process that information, run it through various internal agents then display the information in a straight forward way to make it easy to use.

We write custom agents to monitor specific equipment or applications and there is also a Mutiny PowerShell Scheduler available that allows end users to compose their own PowerShell scripts that can query counters from Microsoft applications and feed the data directly into the mutiny system for reporting.

What you can get from each "Node" as we call them depends on what it runs and what additional vendor SNMP agents they have for example;

A ping only node on the Internet;

Ping with RTT graphing
Various port based service tests like http(s) web page content tests, mail relay, DNS, traceroute, Web cert tests.

Any wintel box with Microsoft's SNMP service installed will give us;

Ping with RTT graphing
SNMP service test
Interface and traffic data
CPU utilisation
Memory usage
Hard disk capacity
Processes running
Software installed
Various port based service tests like web page content tests, mail relay etc.
Graphing of system and interface data
Powershell remote agents

A HP or Dell server with Insight or OpenManage agents installed;

Ping with RTT graphing
SNMP service test
Interface and traffic
CPU utilisation
Memory usage
Hard disk capacity
Processes running
Server environment, RAID status, CPU, Fans, temperature and redundant PSU status
Various port based service tests like web page content tests, mail relay etc.
Graphing of System and interface data
Dell DIMM status checking

A HP ILO port

Server envoronment
Raid Status
Temperature
Fan Status

A Solaris box running net-SNMP (default in Solaris 10 available for older)

Ping with RTT graphing
SNMP service test
Interface and traffic
CPU Load factor
Memory usage
Hard disk capacity
Processes running
Various port service tests like web page content, mail relay etc.
Graphing of System and interface data
Custom scripts for hardware issues etc
Custom unix remote agents for application monitoring

A VMware ESX server running on HP with insight manager

Ping with RTT graphing
SNMP service test
Interface and traffic
CPU Load factor
Memory usage
Hard disk capacity
processes running
Server environment, RAID status, CPU, Fans, temperature and redundant PSU status
Various port based service tests like web page content tests, mail relay etc.
Graphing of System and interface data

A VMware virtual server