WebSphere Monitoring

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list James Wade · Thu, 16 Nov 2006 13:48:07 -0600 ·

Does anyone monitor any Websphere Logs?

 
I'm looking for suggestions on monitoring them.

 
Thanks.James

list Allan Spencer · Fri, 17 Nov 2006 09:22:25 +1100 ·

▸ quoted from James Wade

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

list James Wade · Thu, 16 Nov 2006 16:38:32 -0600 ·

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

▸ quoted from Allan Spencer


-----Original Message-----
From: Allan Spencer [mailto:user-42a3456c44ef@xymon.invalid] Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 4:22 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
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

list Allan Spencer · Fri, 17 Nov 2006 09:56:19 +1100 ·

▸ quoted from James Wade

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:user-42a3456c44ef@xymon.invalid] Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 4:22 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
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

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

list Henrik Størner · Fri, 17 Nov 2006 09:09:35 +0100 ·

▸ quoted from James Wade

On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 04:38:32PM -0600, James Wade wrote:

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.

Wrong. In client-local.cfg, put

  [myhost]
  log:/opt/WebSphere/AppServer3/log/Weblog.out

In hobbit-clients.cfg, put

  HOST=myhost
      LOG /opt/WebSphere/AppServer3/log/Weblog.out %Error|Warning

if you want to react to the words "Error" or "Warning" showing up in the
logfile.

Both of these configuration files are on the Hobbit server only.


Regards,
Henrik

list James Wade · Fri, 17 Nov 2006 10:18:45 -0600 ·

Thanks...

Works, Great now. Can I add different alert levels
like this:

HOST=System011
   LOG /opt/IBM/WebSphere/logs/SystemOut.log %Error|Warning COLOR=YELLOW
   LOG /opt/IBM/WebSphere/logs/SystemOut.log %Assertion COLOR=RED


Thanks...James

▸ quoted from Henrik Størner



-----Original Message-----
From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid] 
Sent: Friday, November 17, 2006 2:10 AM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] WebSphere Monitoring

On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 04:38:32PM -0600, James Wade wrote:

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.

Wrong. In client-local.cfg, put

  [myhost]
  log:/opt/WebSphere/AppServer3/log/Weblog.out

In hobbit-clients.cfg, put

  HOST=myhost
      LOG /opt/WebSphere/AppServer3/log/Weblog.out %Error|Warning

if you want to react to the words "Error" or "Warning" showing up in the
logfile.

Both of these configuration files are on the Hobbit server only.


Regards,
Henrik

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