FusionReactor Nagios Plugin

David Stockton
David Stockton
Senior ColdFusion Consultant

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  • Created:
    Thu, 1 Oct 2009
  • Updated:
    Thu, 1 Oct 2009
  • Products:
    FusionReactor
    Nagios
    JDBC Wrapper

FusionReactor Nagios Plugin


What is Nagios?

"Nagios is an enterprise-class monitoring solution for hosts, services, and networks released under an Open Source license."

Source: http://www.nagios.org, March 12th 2009

Many companies use Nagios throughout the enterprise to alert them of operational abnormalities. This plugin allows you leverage the unique monitoring capabilities of FusionReactor from within your existing Nagios environment.

Nagios Exchange


Plugin Details

This is a Perl plugin for the Nagios monitoring system to allow monitoring of your J2EE application through the FusionReactor software.

You can monitor & track high level metrics (instance CPU, heap memory, JDBC calls, average request time, etc) from within Nagios. If/When an issue is alerted from Nagios, you can use FusionReactor to investigate further.


Monitoring ColdFusion with Nagios

FusionReactor can monitor any type of J2EE server. ColdFusion runs on a J2EE server meaning that you can monitor your ColdFusion application with Nagios using FusionReactor and this plugin.

You can also monitor your Railo server with Nagios or OpenBD (Open BlueDragon) using this Nagios plugin.


Requirements

System to be monitored (J2EE server)

  • FusionReactor Enterprise Edition

Monitoring Host (Nagios server)

The following modules can easily be installed via CPAN. Further instructions are available in the documentation:

  • Nagios::Plugin
  • File::Basename
  • LWP::UserAgent
  • Digest::MD5
  • MIME::Base64
  • XML::XPath
  • XML::XPath::XMLParse

Latest Version

Latest Stable: Nagios Plugin 1.0

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Documentation


Changelog

1.0 – Initial release

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