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- Created:
12 March 2009 - Updated:
24 March 2009 - User Level:
Intermediate - Products:
FusionReactor
What is Nagios?
“Nagios is an enterprise-class monitoring solution for hosts, services, and networks released under an Open Source license.”
Source: http://exchange.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.
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
- URI::URL
- Digest::MD5
- MIME::Base64
- XML::XPath
- XML::XPath::XMLParse
Latest Version
Latest Stable: Nagios Plugin 1.0
Changelog
1.0 – Initial release


