Performance Monitoring for Linux Servers
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eG Enterprise offers 100% web-based Linux server monitoring and application performance monitoring. Various Linux variants including Red Hat Linux, SuSE Linux, Ubuntu Linux, and CentOS can be monitored by eG Enterprise. Using a web-based console, administrators can track the status of their heterogeneous Linux server farms, receive alerts when problems happen, view reports on historical performance, and plan the capacity of their server farms.
To monitor a Linux server, you need to deploy the eG agent software. The agent deployment takes at most a couple of minutes, and soon as the agent is started, it can start monitoring the Linux server hardware, operating system and application processes with little configuration. Baselines for all the collected metrics are pre-defined in eG Enterprise based on industry standard best practices, so you can start receiving alerts when a process fails, a critical event is logged in the server log, or when a disk fills up. If you are interested, the same eG agent can be upgraded to monitor critical public domain applications such as Apache web servers, MySQL databases, and Jboss or Tomcat web application servers running on the Linux servers. Commercial applications hosted on Linux such as Oracle database servers, WebLogic or WebSphere application servers, and others can also be monitored using eG Enterprise. For a complete list of supported platforms, click here.
The Linux server monitoring can be done in an agent-based or in an agentless manner, and administrators can pick and choose the servers that have to be monitored with agents (e.g., critical production servers) and those that can be monitored in an agentless manner (e.g., staging servers). The monitoring system is licensed per server OS, and not based on the number of CPU cores or sockets, or based on the applications running on it.
With its ability to monitor 10+ operating systems including Microsoft Windows 2008, 2003, 2000, Oracle Solaris, AIX, HPUX, OS/400, and OpenVMS, eG Enterprise provides a single pane of glass from where administrators can monitor their heterogeneous multi-vendor data center servers from a single console.
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What the eG Linux Server Monitor Reveals
Capability | Metric | Description |
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CPU Monitoring | CPU utilization per processor of a server Run queue length of a server Top 10 CPU consuming processes on a server Top 10 servers by CPU utilization |
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Memory Monitoring | Free memory availability Swap memory usage Top 10 processes consuming memory on the server Top 10 servers by memory usage |
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I/O Monitoring | Blocked processes Disk activity Top 10 processes by disk activity |
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Uptime Monitoring | Current uptime Top 10 servers by uptime |
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Disk Space Monitoring | Total capacity Free space |
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Network Traffic Monitoring | Incoming and outgoing traffic |
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Linux Network Monitoring | Packet loss Average delay Availability |
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TCP Monitoring | Current connections Incoming/outgoing TCP connection rate TCP retransmissions |
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Process Monitoring | Processes running CPU usage Memory usage |
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Server LogMonitoring | New events |
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