CiscoWorks - LMS 3.2 - Can HUM monitor the following?

[Eduardo Camio]

Hi guys,

     I had been asked to monitor some resources in servers with the HUM module but I am not sure from where could start the research.

     Can someone point me the right direction or tell me if you made something like this before?

     This is the requirement's list:

1. Windows Services
2. Services running in a specific tcp/udp port (basically test an open port)
3. Active URLs (http publishing with basic authentication test)
4. Data bases (availability and size)
5. Shared resources (availability of files and folders)

Thanks everybody!

[yjdabear]

AFAIK, HUM is SNMP poll-based, so even in the unlikely case there's SNMP MIBs for the entirety of your requirements, you'd still be limited to having a real-time graphing portlet manually brought up for each of these on your list, every time someone wants to look at them.

IMO, you're better off looking into a solution such as Nagios with its assorted plugins (http://exchange.nagios.org/) to fill these requirements.

[Eduardo Camio]

Thanks for your reply.

The primary goal behind this pollers are not real-time graphics monitoring but possibility to create thresholds e-mails alerts in case of status changes (down of course).

About the use of Nagios, my customer wants to use one platform for all his devices (Cisco and non-Cisco), but looking forward on this direction I had suggested others products also.

Thanks again.