Cross-platform System Monitor Tools

By Khoa Nguyen

Intelesense Technology, Inc

July 5th 2010

Why do it?

• It’s necessary to closely monitor servers’ status.

• It’s useful to have a central/single station overlooking multiple systems.

• Graphs are viewable on mobile platform.

• Currently available tools are : – NOT free

– NOT customizable

– Hard to use

How we do: Deploy collecting agents

Server - Windows

Server – Linux/Unix

Scripts written in Perl AND WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation)

Bash Shell Script in combination with Perl

All agents are set to execute periodically (i.e every 5 minutes) Agents to collect (current version): • CPU Load Percentage • Memory Usage • Network Activity • Disk Usage • Physical Disk Activity

How we do: Data Transmission

Server - Windows

Server – Linux/Unix

Collecting Agents

Collecting Agents

Monitoring Station

THE INTERNET

Agents will send encrypted data over TCP/IP Internet to Monitoring Station

How we do: Data Visualization Monitoring Station

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Monitoring Station processes data and produce graphs

What To Do Next

• Completely Automate Agents to detect platform and system specification.

• Intelligent/Automated database creation upon new systems.

• Improve User Interface. • Improve Graph Interaction. • Create new agents (in development) to monitor

Application Level (web-server, IIS, MySQL, etc)