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hobbit on Solaris 10 non-global Zone

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list Nicolas Dorfsman · Tue, 9 Jan 2007 16:00:27 +0100 ·
  Hi,

  I have to monitor a Sol10 non-global Zone.

  Any hint ?


  TIA

  Nicolas
list Bill Fischer · Tue, 9 Jan 2007 10:22:32 -0600 ·
Install the client on the non-global zone.

I haven't tried it with resource management on the zones (aka containers),
but with a simple non-global zone, you get duplicate monitoring of cpu and
memory usage.    Disk usage is also a duplicate unless you have given the
non-global zone control of any devices.

... and prtdiag doesn't report anything in the non-global zone, so it's a
good idea to watch the global zone even if you don't have any apps running
there.

Everything else (ports, procs, files, etc) works just fine.

You could try to watch everything from the client in the global zone, but I
suspect there would be issues with that.  In particular, if you want to
watch sshd, for instance.  The client on the global zone would see sshd for
each of the zones just as "sshd".   If one zone wasn't running any sshd's,
but the others had extra sshd's running, hobbit would be none the wiser.

-Bill.
quoted from Nicolas Dorfsman


-----Original Message-----
From: Nicolas Dorfsman [mailto:user-ef21b83534bb@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2007 9:00 AM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: [hobbit] hobbit on Solaris 10 non-global Zone

  Hi,

  I have to monitor a Sol10 non-global Zone.

  Any hint ?


  TIA

  Nicolas
list Martin Flemming · Tue, 9 Jan 2007 17:56:58 +0100 (CET) ·
Hi !

Please check this 
http://www.trantor.org/theshire/doku.php/monitors:zonestat

But I have didn't test it yet for myself ....

cheers,
             Martin

Martin Flemming
DESY / IT          office : Building 2b / 008a
Notkestr. 85       phone  : XXX - XXXX - XXXX
22603 Hamburg      mail   : user-f286aaa49a76@xymon.invalid
quoted from Nicolas Dorfsman

On Tue, 9 Jan 2007, Nicolas Dorfsman wrote:
 Hi,

 I have to monitor a Sol10 non-global Zone.

 Any hint ?


 TIA

 Nicolas

list Eric Meddaugh · Wed, 10 Jan 2007 08:04:11 -0500 ·
I wrote this to monitor non-global zone statistics from the global zone.
We have over 150+ non-global zones to monitor on about 15 global zones.
We did not want to have to support the hobbit client in each non-global
zone.  

The zonestat script only sends information to the "data" part of hobbit.
I've attached a modified hobbitclient-sunos.sh script that can run
inside a non-global zone.  Certain things it does not send to the hobbit
server.  You'll then want to add a
"NOCOLUMNS:disk,cpu,memory,files,ports,procs,msgs" to the host tag.
(Modify it to suit your own environment).  We monitor all the disk, cpu,
memory from the global zone and report on that.  We then use the GROUP
to alert to different people.  I give hobbit sudo rights to run "df"
without a password so it can see the zone's file systems to monitor
correctly.

Hope that helps.  I have a generic rrd_data.pl that will read the data
input coming from other clients.  It takes data in a certain format that
we can use here for other data statistics that we need have hobbit
graph.

---Eric
quoted from Martin Flemming

-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Flemming [mailto:user-f286aaa49a76@xymon.invalid] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2007 11:57
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] hobbit on Solaris 10 non-global Zone


Hi !

Please check this 

http://www.trantor.org/theshire/doku.php/monitors:zonestat

But I have didn't test it yet for myself ....

cheers,
             Martin

Martin Flemming
DESY / IT          office : Building 2b / 008a
Notkestr. 85       phone  : XXX - XXXX - XXXX
22603 Hamburg      mail   : user-f286aaa49a76@xymon.invalid

On Tue, 9 Jan 2007, Nicolas Dorfsman wrote:
 Hi,

 I have to monitor a Sol10 non-global Zone.

 Any hint ?


 TIA

 Nicolas

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list Nicolas Dorfsman · Fri, 12 Jan 2007 11:57:31 +0100 ·
2007/1/10, Eric Meddaugh <user-4e1e735fdc96@xymon.invalid>:
quoted from Eric Meddaugh
I wrote this to monitor non-global zone statistics from the global zone.
We have over 150+ non-global zones to monitor on about 15 global zones.
We did not want to have to support the hobbit client in each non-global
zone.

The zonestat script only sends information to the "data" part of hobbit.
I've attached a modified hobbitclient-sunos.sh script that can run
inside a non-global zone.
Well...thanks !

I've tuned your hobbitclient-sunos.sh to have "zoned" informations on
ps/prstat and let vmstat infos on each non-global zones. I think it
could be interesting for non-global zones admins where their zones are
on different pools.
My tuned script is attached.

Now, I'll try zonestat !
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list Peter Welter · Thu, 22 Mar 2007 18:25:27 +0100 ·
Hi Eric,

Today I installed the (your) solaris 10 zonestat plugin from TheShire and
the rrd-files are made on the hobbit server. But I'm missing the last part
(modify hobbitgraph with rrd-definitions, TRENDS-modification in bb-hosts).
Could you please supply these on the mailing list or update TheShire
documentation?

Thanks!

Peter
quoted from Eric Meddaugh

2007/1/10, Eric Meddaugh <user-4e1e735fdc96@xymon.invalid>:

I wrote this to monitor non-global zone statistics from the global zone.
We have over 150+ non-global zones to monitor on about 15 global zones.
We did not want to have to support the hobbit client in each non-global
zone.

The zonestat script only sends information to the "data" part of hobbit.
I've attached a modified hobbitclient-sunos.sh script that can run
inside a non-global zone.  Certain things it does not send to the hobbit
server.  You'll then want to add a
"NOCOLUMNS:disk,cpu,memory,files,ports,procs,msgs" to the host tag.
(Modify it to suit your own environment).  We monitor all the disk, cpu,
memory from the global zone and report on that.  We then use the GROUP
to alert to different people.  I give hobbit sudo rights to run "df"
without a password so it can see the zone's file systems to monitor
correctly.

Hope that helps.  I have a generic rrd_data.pl that will read the data
input coming from other clients.  It takes data in a certain format that
we can use here for other data statistics that we need have hobbit
graph.

---Eric

-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Flemming [mailto:user-f286aaa49a76@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2007 11:57
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] hobbit on Solaris 10 non-global Zone


Hi !

Please check this

http://www.trantor.org/theshire/doku.php/monitors:zonestat

But I have didn't test it yet for myself ....

cheers,
             Martin

Martin Flemming
DESY / IT          office : Building 2b / 008a
Notkestr. 85       phone  : XXX - XXXX - XXXX
22603 Hamburg      mail   : user-f286aaa49a76@xymon.invalid

On Tue, 9 Jan 2007, Nicolas Dorfsman wrote:
 Hi,

 I have to monitor a Sol10 non-global Zone.

 Any hint ?


 TIA

 Nicolas

-- 

Groet/Regards,

Peter