..that will allow to “ping” (not in the literal sens) various servers and showing graphically their status.
Basically need to issue different commands in command prompt to remote servers to get their status and display the results in a color coded way. e.g. If successful response from a, say, db server, display in green color.
does anyone know where I can find such a utility? due to graphical nature of the desired utility it has to be more than a simple .bat or .cmd file in windows. Thanks.
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ICMP would never know what server is what. You can use something like MonitorIT and setup agents on diff. servers and can get status of various services on a box. It also gives a graphical overview of your network.
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Tofi, no, my problem is way simpler than that. Let me give you an example. Let's say I've a DB2 server running, an MQ Series, an App server etc. Let's say I can open a cmd prompt in windows and issue and command "disp db2servername" and it returns the status of the server. Let's say there are similiar commands for MQ Series, app server etc. All I need is to combine all these commands and their results in one "dashboard" like interface with color coded results like Green for server up and running, red for no response/server down etc.
It's like issuing four different ping commands in cmd prompt window but showing the results in cosolidated GUI.
I don't need to know the running process stats or % of memory used or any sort of advanced detailed info. Just basic info that if the server is running or not etc.
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So you need to check for a specific service on each server? I mean let’s say cmdA can check IIS service, cmdB would check for SQL service etc. Or do u just want to see if the server is up, without caring about what its serving?
If you just want to see if the server is operational you can use LookAtHost or LookAtLAN (http://www.lookatlan.com/). Works great.
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yes, it's going to be specific service running on specific server. moreover, this tool should be able to establish ssh connection on an AIX box.
I'm thinking about writing our own home grown utility for this using some kinda Java SSH api perhaps.
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Did you consider cricket ?
Runs perfectly fine on Linux, dont know about AIX. You can run cricket on a production server as side application too doesnt take much system resources unless u are monitoring a large network.
OR, you can go to
& see what suits your needs.
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Try the network monitor from SOLARWINDS
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Ok, it's more clear now what our needs are.
Basically our test team needs an easy way to quickly see the status of services running on different servers on the network. They need a small utility on windows machine that they can simply double click and it can bring the gui which shows the status.
The status is basically the result output of various commands issued to a remote AIX box. For example:
The command "dspmq" issued on a command prompt on an AIX box will display the status of MQ series Q manager.
The command "mqsilist" shows the status of Message broker configuration manager
So there are various other commands that will show status of other type of servers like DB2 etc.
As you can see these are not Ping commands so any generic utility won't do.
I've started our own home grown utility for the team. After doing much research I came to the conclusion that an executable java jar file will do our job - with swing GUI. I'm also looking into java ssh api that allows you to authenticate to an AIX/Unix box, open session/shell and execute commands and capture output via java api.
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Only SNMP can do something for you... for that you need to find exact MIB which you need to run.. as I said you can try SOLARWINDS..... its a complete package with all kind of monitoring and configuration programs...