Transaction monitoring

[serge.fonville]

Well done on the great work in developing ZABBIX. Based on what I read, it is a great solution for monitoring multiple platforms and environments.

Presently we're using IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.1 for Availability and Application monitoring, althoug it is very feauture rich, it does not fully suit our needs.
In the near future we will implement transaction monitoring. If ZABBIX will support it, we will definitely consider using it instead of IBM Tivoli Monitoring.

Of course, any opinions and advice is greatly appreciated.

Again, thanks for such a great solution.

[swaterhouse]

What type transactions are you wanting to monitor? What tyopes of things do you want to know about the transactions?

If there are ways of getting the information you want (i.e. a script, snmp, windows performance monitor) then you can use Zabbix to monitor it.

Scott

[serge.fonville]

I'll try and elaborate a little

Things I need to monitor:
MySQL
DB2
LDAP
Apache
IIS
Exchange
Linux
Active Directory
Windows
PHP


I need to know when a specific client uses a service, what the respons time for that specific request is in total and for all the applicable servers and services. Also I would like to be able to determine which type (and its component) of request poses a (potential) bottleneck. I can imagine that this would all be scriptable, but I have absolutely no idea where to start.

So, if I understand correctly, if for example Perl can access it, so can zabbix?
does this mean this can all be run in the background without the need for any user to login?

Thanks a lot so far

[swaterhouse]

So, if I understand correctly, if for example Perl can access it, so can zabbix?
does this mean this can all be run in the background without the need for any user to login?

Yes, you would/could write a script in perl (or any other langage you wish) that would output something that zabbix can interpret and report on.

The script would get called by the zabbix agent as often as you configure it to run (defined when you create the item in the zabbix frontend).

Also note that some of the things you want to measure are available as performance counters in windows or in built in utilities supplied with the programs. Check the templates page for some of them (check back often as new templates get added).

Scott