This section describes basic monitoring of your environment. It also provides links to more detailed information about CIM providers and information about connectivity and ports.
The intent of this section is to provide information on the major items that should be monitored in your environment. The methods of implementation depend upon your chosen monitoring tool.
Critical Nodes
Several nodes are critical to proper functioning in your environment. Odten, the software is able to "self-heal". However, any impairment to these nodes should still be noted and potential action taken regardless of the software capability to "self-heal". Providing feedback on these occurrences is also important to improving the quality of the software. The nodes (whether iron or virtual) that should be actively monitored are listed below. Some of these are appliances and some are not.
Service provider nodes:
- Active Directory
- ESX hosts
- Load balancer
- NFS server
- Network routers
- Time server
Nodes:
- Service Provider
- Tenant
- Resource Manager
Basic System Functions
For each of the nodes listed under "Critical Nodes", these basic functions should be monitored:
- File system space
- CPU usage
- Memory usage
The method of monitoring this information will vary depending upon the OS being monitored and the monitoring software itself. Please consult your monitoring software documentation for details.
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