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| jcalderone |
 Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 11:56 am Post subject: |
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| bruce2359 wrote: |
As an exercise: if you inquire on currepth of a queue, and discover that curdepth is 5, what will you do with this information? Or, more accurately, what will those that requested this type of information learn from the fact that curdepth is 5?
What does it means when curdepth is 5? |
I won't do anything with it. The people in charge of monitoring expressed an interest in it. I didn't ask what they would do with it. I assume they'll use it to try to smooth out load spikes, improve load balancing, notice points of failure, increase server utilization, or something else along those lines. That's just me, though - like I said, I didn't ask. |
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| jcalderone |
| Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 12:00 pm Post subject: |
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| Vitor wrote: |
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| So, for example, is there an existing tool like this which can report the current depth of a queue? Even better would be something that could report on many or all of the other stats about queues and queue managers (enqueue count, high queue depth, queue empty, etc). |
You've just described every commercial monitoring tool with WMQ capabilities! These are (as I'm sure you've discovered) the common things which need to be monitored and possibly acted on.
Another viable plan is to ask your local admins what they're using to monitor CPU, RAM, disc space and so forth. Most of those monitoring tools have WMQ capability. |
Apologies for being a bit unclear. I'm not surprised to learn that these are things monitored by every commercial monitoring tool with WMQ capabilities. However, there is already a monitoring system in place here which does not support WMQ. The task is to give this system some WMQ support. I think it will be satisfactory to do so by re-using some existing tool, but the tool does need to be able to be integrated into the existing system; a wholesale replacement monitoring system with WMQ support isn't going to fit.
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You could do a lot worse than look through the "Monitoring and tools" section of this forum. Most of the software "usual suspects" have been discussed at one time or another.
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Cool. I thought I'd looked over all the sections already, but I missed this one. I'll go look through the postings there now. Thanks! |
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| mqjeff |
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If the COTS monitor *really* doesn't have a WMQ component, then you are still probably much better off buying a real WMQ component, and configuring it to output alerts into a format that the COTS software can pick up.
If, for example, the COTS software can read a process a text file, you can configure almost all WMQ software to write out a formatted text message when the WMQ monitors detects a given situation.
It's a bit like phoning a friend to have him pass a note to your buddy, but it's still probably represents a better VALUE. |
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| bruce2359 |
| Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 2:29 pm Post subject: |
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| there is already a monitoring system in place here |
May I ask which monitoring system?
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| jcalderone |
| Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 6:16 am Post subject: |
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| there is already a monitoring system in place here |
May I ask which monitoring system? |
Sure: Zenoss |
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