Senior Windows Engineer (TX) Next Step Systems US-TX-Houston Post A Job | Post A Resume

Hi

I'm proud to announce a new release of the Monitoring and Administration Tool (MAT). New to version 0.20 is the replication module. This allows replication between UNIX hosts. A HPUX agent is now included, as well as a GNU libc build. There are several bug fixes in the backup module, as well as some fixes to the system monitoring module.

The MAT web site is at: http://www.ee.ryerson.ca/~sblack/mat

It contains screen-shots, as well as descriptions of MAT's functions.

Below is a description of this release of MAT.

Monitoring & Administration Tool (MAT)
--------------------------------------

MAT is an enterprise monitoring and administration tool. It allows you as an administrator, or authorized individual, to manage a hetrogeneous UNIX network. It hides most of the complexity of the standard configuration files making it easier administer. The monitoring daemon provides historical information about a hosts status. Several monitored parameters can be graphed to aid capacity planning. The monitored parameters can trigger events when a threshold is exceeded, alerting administrators to problems.

Some of the advanced features include the ability to upgrade it's self as new versions, or upgrades become available, the ability to allow other users to control some or all of the administrative functions. The ability to see the "health" of a host.

MAT is in three parts, the MAT agent, the MAT daemon, and the MAT console. The MAT agent does the actual work of modifing files, running commands, and inspecting the system. The MAT daemon MATd periodically monitors system parameters, and can send alarms. The MAT console provides an easy to use GUI which sends commands to the MAT agent to manipulate and query standard UNIX configuration files. It also provides an easy to use GUI for graphing the MATd results and controlling the parameters monitored by MATd.

MAT is available for Linux, SunOS 4.1.x, and Solaris. An alpha port to IRIX 6.x is included. Currently MAT allows you to add, modify and delete the following:

• Users (Site specific user defaults are supported)
• Groups
• Hosts
• Email Aliases
• Mounted filesystems
• Crontab entries
• DNS client configuration
• Login message (motd)
• Services
• Exported (shared) filesystems
• DNS domains & records
• Most NIS records
• Syslogd entries

MAT allows you inspect many of the common system parameters including:

• All syslog files (TK 8.0 recommended for this)
• Routes
• Processes
• Lastlog
• Diskspace
• Exports

The monitoring deamon MATd runs scripts for monitoring of:

• Network Connectivity (through ICMP)
• Required Processes
• Disk usage
• CPU use
• Run queue
• User logins
• FTP server status
• SMTP server status
• Network Interface Activity

SWAP, and Memory use are monitored in the Linux version. A simple plotting tool allows you to graph the various monitored parameters. The monitoring scripts are written in Perl, and should be easy to customize and expand. The MAT probe has been updated to display it's current status.

Requirements:
--------------
For the MAT agent you need a UNIX machine running:

• Linux 2.x
• SunOS 4.1.4
• Solaris 5.x
• IRIX 6.x
• HPUX 10.10 or 10.20

Perl 5.x is needed for the monitored parameters and alarms. The Console requires Tcl/TK on at least one host.

Index Mode   |   Flat Mode   |   Thread Mode   |   Thread Flat     Talkback(s) Name  and Date   downloadin monitoring tool    aftab alam Nov 29, 1999, 13:39:32     FreeBSD Gateway    Nikolay Alexandrov May 14, 2007, 18:46:50     Home | Search Talkbacks | Customize View    Top of Page   Enter your comments below: * Your Name: * Your Email Address: * Subject: CC: [will also send this talkback to an E-Mail address] * Comments: Tags allowed:<I>,<B> and <U>. See our talkback-policy for more about talkback content. Fields marked with * are required!