Hovhannes Avoyan

Monitis provides the ability to monitor almost any operation on your server.  Using simple Linux tools and scripts you are able to monitor each time a user logs into the server and capture various information, including username, host address and login service.  Using pam_script and bash scripts, you are able to transmit information to a Custom Monitor with this information. API Access The first thing you will need in order to create this monitor is the Monitis API Key and Secret Key.  The API Key is a alphanumeric code that allows you to access the Monitis API url’s and transmit or receive data about your Monitis services.  The Secret Key is an alphanumeric code that allows you to digitally sign your information to ensure that only you can transmit data to your Monitis account.  Your API Key may be disclosed to anyone, but your Secret Key must be maintained privat... (more)

Monitis (M3) & Nagios – a very simple integration

Nagios, a systems monitoring software What’s Nagios? – Nagios is a rather simplistic monitoring software. And I like simple things. Nagios’ responsibility is not necessarily to draw nice graphs for your boss or collect data you may or may not need. Nagios simply decides whether your system runs properly. And for this question there is a very explicit answer – a YES or a NO. Nagios will alert you if the answer is a NO. In the following article I’m going to show how easy it is to integrate Nagios with Monitis. M3 – a Universal monitoring framework for Monitis custom scripts M3 (Mon... (more)

Monitis New Features May – June 2011

We’ve been working hard on new features between May and June 2011, so please take a look at what’s new at Monitis during that period. LOCATION PERMISSIONS To make things easier we changed our location permission approach. Before you had to explicitly specify our external locations to use and were bound to those locations. Now you specify only the maximal number of locations and are free to use and combine our external locations however you want. GLOBAL TRACEROUTE SERVICE We launched a new free tool, Online Visual Traceroute, which will enable system administrators and webmasters to ... (more)

How to Easily Monitor Windows Performance Counters with VBScript on Monitis

Monitis provides you with the ability to monitor almost any detail on your Windows server (also see our post How to Monitor Windows Servers with VBScript, WMI and Monitis). Using a simple Visual Basic Script (VBS), you will be able to read the value of any Performance Counter on your Windows Server and send it to a Custom Monitor. It’s easy as pie. Keep reading for the recipe! About Performance Counters   Performance Counters are used to provide information as to how well the operating system or an application, service, or driver is performing.  Performance Counters are highly... (more)

Cacti, SNMP, Monitis and what’s between them

Got Cacti? Proper disclosure – the author have never properly used Cacti as a monitoring system in a production environment. So what’s Cacti? – I’m not sure that after the proper disclosure I can actually comment too much, but from my first impression, Cacti is a fairly comprehensive server and network monitoring platform for Unix. It’ll support graphing of performance counters, alerting, polling of SNMP MIB counters from various devices (that are not necessarily computers, but also routers, switches, etc.) and probably many other functions that unfortunately I can’t mention – be... (more)