Overview For most Linux hosts, all that is necessary for monitoring is for SNMP and NTP to be accessible from the collector machine. If you are not getting data for SNMP DataSources on a host, we’ve compiled a list of troubleshooting items to verify. General Troubleshooting Start with these basic checks: If the queries are … Continued
By default, LogicMonitor will attempt an NTP query against all Linux hosts to determine whether their time is synchronized against an NTP server. Proper time synchronization is very important in most data centers, and easy to set up. Your monitored host should be running NTPd or XNTPd, and be configured to get its time from … Continued
For most common Linux-based application and devices, enabling the SNMP background service is an essential step to configuring your host for monitoring. The goal of this page is to provide you with a general understanding of how to configure SNMP on your Linux host and troubleshoot issues that may relate to IPtables blocking either of … Continued
By default, LogicMonitor monitors interface bandwidth utilization as a percentage of the interface’s physical capacity, for any of your Linux hosts, and most of your SNMP-enabled devices. Note that this is a percentage utilization of your physical link speed, which may not reflect any configured limits imposed by your uplink provider. Monitoring Interface Utilization based on Configured Speed … Continued
There is no standard way to collect file system inode usage via SNMP. However, it can be easily achieved by adding the following line to the snmpd.conf file on any system using the Net SNMP agent (which is most Linux systems, current Solaris, etc) and restarting the snmp daemon. extend lm-inodes /bin/df -ilTP -x tmpfs … Continued