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Kelemvor
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2 months ago

How do you monitor Running Services on Linux boxes?

Hi,

There seems to be a few different options for monitoring services on Linux machines.  We had been using one that uses SNMP, but it's been giving us trouble with some machines showing No Data every so often.  We've also had the check start ignoring services when they stop and then removing the instance.

We recently started trying an SSH based check which seems to work.  However, it's based on setting a property on every machine/group to tell it which services to monitor.

I'm just curious what module other people use to monitor services like this with the most reliable results.

Thanks.

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  • David_Bond's avatar
    David_Bond
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    2 months ago

    Officially, like this!: https://www.logicmonitor.com/support/devices/device-datasources-instances/monitoring-web-pages-processes-services-and-unc-paths

    We ended up developing our own SNMP Extensions though.

  • Kelemvor's avatar
    Kelemvor
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    2 months ago

    Umm, is there no EDIT button on these forums?  Anyway, I forgot to mention that all we really want is an Up/Down monitor.  We don't care about CPU or Memory being used by the services, we just want to know if it stops.

  • Joe_Williams's avatar
    Joe_Williams
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    2 months ago

    We use an older exchange module called Linux_SSH_ServiceStatus. Everything we want to alert on up/down is technically a service so this works for us.

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      Kelemvor
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      31 days ago

      I think that might be the one we just found the other day and are testing.

      Thanks.