Port monitoring using sunmc

Question

Does anyone know of a module for SunMC which can monitor whether servers are responding on specific ports ( e.g. port 25 ). Either a Sun or Halcyon module.
Also, does anyone know if a V125 would be powerful enough as a SunMC server. I've been told by a colleague that SunMC servers should have at least 2 CPUs. He installed it on a V210 with 1 CPU and said that it was very slow. The Sun documentation states a minimum of 1 GB memory, but doesn't say anything about CPU.
spec of V125 is 1x 1GHz CPU, 1Gb MEM and 73GB disk.
Thanks

Answer 1

Hi Matte,
Does anyone know of a module for SunMC which can
monitor whether servers are responding on specific
ports ( e.g. port 25 ). Either a Sun or Halcyon
module.Look at the Service Availability Manager addon that ships with SunMC. It can monitor several services on common ports:
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/816-7416
If that doesn't work, but you can test that port with a script (i.e. a wget/curl type transaction for a web page.. or even "netstat -an | grep <port>"... then you can have SunMC monitor it for you with ScriptRunner from Halcyon:
http://www.halcyoninc.com/products/ScriptRunner/index.php
Also, does anyone know if a V125 would be powerful
enough as a SunMC server. I've been told by a
colleague that SunMC servers should have at least 2
CPUs. He installed it on a V210 with 1 CPU and said
that it was very slow. The Sun documentation states a
minimum of 1 GB memory, but doesn't say anything
about CPU.The question is: powerful enough for how many Agents? I''ve seen SunMC Servers running fine on Ultra 5/10s w/512MB of RAM and the performance was good enough for everyday use (but you wouldn't want to point 500 Agents at it).
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