Tag: how-to

Getting started with bischeck

This guide will help you get started with Bischeck and op5 Monitor

Bischeck installation

This guide will help you install Bishcheck for op5 Monitor.

How-to use an SMS gateway via TCP/IP with op5 Appliance System 6 or CentOS 6

This guide explains how to set up serial communication from op5 Appliance System (6.0 and up, and CentOS 6 and up) to an SMS gateway connected to a Moxa NPort 5110, in order to be able to send SMS notifications in situations where the SMS gateway can’t be directly connected to the op5 system via

How-to monitor Microsoft Hyper-V

This article describes how to monitor Microsoft Hyper-V. Prerequisites For this how-to to work you need the latest op5 NSClient++ installed on your hyper-v server. Firewall settings First off we need to change the firewall settings to allow ICMP ping. Open a terminal on the windows server and execute: netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name="ICMPv4

How-to Install VMware vSphere SDK for Perl 5.1

In order to use the check_esx3 plugin with op5 Monitor you will need to install the VMware vSphere SDK for Perl API. Unfortunately, we can not bundle the VMware Perl API with op5 Monitor for legal reasons, but it’s available as a free download (registration needed) from VMware. In this article we will describe how to install

How-to Upgrade to op5 Monitor 6.0

This article describes how to upgrade to op5 Monitor 6. Known issues None Good to know Basic Linux knowledge is required. The LDAP authentication is totally rewritten, if you are using an LDAP integration with op5 monitor today your configuration will be converted. Make sure to read the manual on LDAP integration and go through

Webcast: Unified Monitoring

webcast unified network monitoring

 

This webcast details how to work with Unified Monitoing in op5 Monitor. This is a recording from a webinar held 13/06/2012. Speaker is Ola Sandström.

 

Include PNP Graphs in a NagVis map and in a Widget in the Tactical Overview

This is a how-to for including PNP graphs for a service check in a widget in the Tactical Overview. It is tested on op5 Monitor 5.5.3.1.

How to scale op5 Monitor

webcast how to scale op5 monitor
op5 Monitor is a highly scalable solution and enables you to setup distributed monitoring with automatic fail-over, load-balancing and redundancy. In this 30 minutes webinar we will give you insights on why and how to scale op5 Monitor to your needs.

Secure communication with Cloud poller

op5 Monitor can be used in a distributed monitoring set up with a master system and one or several pollers. The pollers can be cloud based using op5 Cloud Extension or setup as standard local poller using op5 Poller Extension. This how-to describes how to secure the communication between master and cloud or normal poller

Agentless Monitoring of Windows using WMI

This how-to will guide you to monitor your Windows server using WMI. This will allow you to do checks from op5 on Windows hosts without installing any agent in Windows. Updated: 2012-01-13: Updated with information on how to grant access to check windows services with a non-administrator account. 2012-10-25: Updated with information on how to

Receiving SNMP traps with op5 Monitor

This howto describes how to recive SNMP-Traps with op5 Monitor.

Using eventhandlers to restart services

This howto will describe how you use Event Handlers with op5 Monitor to let monitor take action upon an event, for an example restart a service on a certain state-change.

Using Custom Scripts In Statistics

In this How-To we will be using a small perl script that uses the op5 Monitor plugin called check_http to graph the response time of a webserver. All commands in this How-To are executed in an ssh connection at the op5 Statistics server.

check_oracle with Oracle Instant Client

This how-to describes how to setup your op5 Monitor server with Oracle Instant Client to be able to use check_oracle directly towards the Oracle Database without the need of  3rd party agents.