Monitoring old hardware 🔗 link

Does anyone have one of these??

     HP 989    running    MPE/ix  version 7

If so, how are you monitoring it, if at all??

I guess it's an HP box running some kind of *nix.  That's all I know.
Don't even know if there's a C compiler or other tools on it.  Blasted
thing crashed a couple of times recently and irritated a customer, so
I have to get *something* working for it...

Thanks,

Ralph Mitchell

Any one has hobbit client for HPUX 9 ? I would love ot see my coworker's face when I put hb client on it

tj
----- Original Message ----- From: "Ralph Mitchell" <user-00a5e44c48c0@xymon.invalid>
To: <user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid>
Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2006 9:16 PM
Subject: [hobbit] Monitoring old hardware

What about using the perl client?

-Charles

T.J. Yang wrote:

On 9/19/06, Charles Jones <user-e86b4aeade4e@xymon.invalid> wrote:

What about using the perl client?

Thanks, I'll take a look at that.

Honestly, I don't even know if the box is on a piece of network I can
reach, let alone get messages back from.  Hopefully I can find out
more tonight when I get to work.  All I have right now is, it's older
than dirt, the client doesn't appear to be planning to upgrade or
replace it, and it's a single point of failure that crashed several
times last night.  Oh, almost forgot, when it dies, that's a severity
1 outage and it's probably our fault...:)

Ralph Mitchell

On 9/19/06, Ralph Mitchell <user-00a5e44c48c0@xymon.invalid> wrote:

Turns out I can snmpwalk all over that bad boy, so I can at least grab
the sysUpTime number from it and flag red if it's been up less than
[some number] of seconds.  I can ping it too, so I have both conn and
uptime columns.  I can even see traffic on the tcp interfaces, but I'm
not sure if I want to deal with that.

I'm still waiting to hear from our people if there's a C compiler.  If
there is, it's all good... :)

Ralph Mitchell

I don't have one but this may help:

Per info in this doc (
http://www.hp.com/products1/evolution/e3000/download/mpeix70.pd), a C
compiler should be available.  How can you run Apache, Samba, BIND, etc
without a C compiler.

Other potential useful sites:
MPE/iX and HP e3000 Technical Documentation
http://docs.hp.com/en/mpeixall.html

HP MPE/iX software
http://www.hp.com/products1/evolution/e3000/mpeix/index.html

Perl for HP e3000 MPE
http://www.bixby.org/mark/perlix.html


On 21 Sep 2006 21:16:36 -0500, "Ralph Mitchell" <user-00a5e44c48c0@xymon.invalid>

wrote:

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Robert Herron
user-8b27ea4290da@xymon.invalid

On 9/20/06, Robert Herron <user-8b27ea4290da@xymon.invalid> wrote:

According to the account manager:

  "the problem is the 'df,' uptime, etc. aren't recognized by MPE"

so I guess that limits what the compiled client would be able to do anyway...

Now, if I can just get them to let me have access to their precious
development system... :)

I think I'm just going to have to stick to the SNMP query - at least I
get uptime from it.  I *think* I also get NIC throughput and some kind
of disk stats, but I'm not sure how much use the raw numbers are.

Thanks anyway, everybody.

Ralph Mitchell