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Simple monitoring script (like the GroupWise HA-option) to ensure that the Mobility Connector is running.

Novell Operations Center meets WorkloadIQ - Monitoring and Measuring Intelligently

What a fast year it has been and what a crazy last couple of weeks for us on the Business Service Management team at Novell. Wednesday was launch day for us and a very exciting time! A time to reflect as well as I spoke to many in the press this week always being asked just what this Business Service Management technology is, what do companies need, how does it differ from the competition, what is your longevity secret sauce and what makes it different than all the rest with this WorkloadIQ approach. I found this intriguing and a very exciting time for the technology in the days of mixed physical, virtual and cloud environments.

Technology in the data center is evolving at a rapid rate and chasing new technologies such as virtualization and cloud are the management tools. Retro-fitting old management tools for new technology has many vendors busy as one option to existing customers. Whenever dramatically new technology options come to the data center, it is always a moment to pause and evaluate current and newly available options. The discussion regarding management tools has always centered around framework, single vendor or a mix of best in breed, niche vendors. However, today that discussion also includes open source low cost or free options at the monitoring level.

This is a check script which runs ndsrepair on an OES (linux) server and alerts if the oldest partition continuity age on the server is higher than the specified (or default) thresholds. It also outputs the oldest partition age (in seconds) as performance data.

This is a check script which runs ndsrepair on an OES (linux) server and alerts if the time is out of sync from eDirectory's point of view on any contactable servers. It also outputs a list of any servers that couldn't be contacted.

Part of eDirectory health checking is to monitor time synchronisation in the environment.

I've put together a Nagios check script which can be used by system administrators to monitor whether time is out of sync on any contactable servers from eDirectory's point of view. It also outputs a list of any servers that couldn't be contacted.