Process/Server monitoring suggestions

I've seen a couple of articles recently ( (1) (2) ) on hardware and process monitoring and so was looking into implementing something. Currently, we just have an unsophisticated 2-Xserve setup, with a mix of synchronization and parallel running -- if the primary goes down, the backup is accessible (not doing IP failover), but I haven't yet set up a notification system or anything in the way of an automated reboot.
Does anyone have any recommendations? I was looking at the munin/monit article posted recently -- the nice thing about it is that it does process monitoring, so it would be possible to receive notification on something like MySQL or Apache hanging. I looked at the watchdogtimerd manual page entry -- it doesn't seem quite sufficient.
This system does not need to be super robust, but I'd prefer to set up a separate machine to help with reporting on the two Xserves, with the Xserves running a heartbeat monitor to check on the monitoring machine also.
It doesn't even need to be set up on an OS X Server, Linux would be fine (although we have a dormant OS X Server 10.4.x installation sitting here in an aging desktop).
Thanks for any advice!

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Recently we had an example of a process sever going into the "unknown" state. We didn't know about the condition and jobs were I assume queued up for execution. Since they were not killed or canceled we did not receive any notification.
Is there a simple method of monitoring the process server status that we can then leverage to send some notification in the event of a non "running" status. Thanks.
Kind Regards,
David Carr

Hi
Re: Thanks for the replies. We are on standalone version 6.0.2 SP11
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Build: M26.17-31458
What build are you on?
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Prior to the upgrade, Server Monitor worked fine on the local machine and worked fine from remote machines. Now it works on the local machine, but not on remote machines.
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I launched it after the upgrade and now I get the "CANNOTLOAD_BUNDLEERROR" and "Software is not installed properly on server" errors.
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Pope7 wrote:
I got distracted and had forgotten about this until I was working on some things today.
ServerMonitor is definitely running, and it still works fine locally.
Just to be clear...
Prior to the 10.5.7 update, Server Monitor on my remote machine pointed to the IP address of the server and not to a special LOM address, and it worked fine. Also, the server is only using eth0.
I can find a lot of documentation on how to setup the LOM if you're setting up the server for the first time. But I can't find any on honge or setup the LOM now?
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Lights-out management administrator
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http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=643361
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CS4 Premiere: Can't open due to inaccessible to Importer Process Server:
Dear Guru:
After subject:
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<string>com.apple.hwmond</string>
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<string>/usr/sbin/hwmond</string>
<key>ProgramArguments</key>
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On the XServe launch Server Monitor, select Add Server and in the IP Address field key in 127.0.0.1 or localhost. In the Name and Password fields key in the default System Administrator account details. Click on Save password in keychain and select a suitable Update every settiing. If you launch WGM you will see the System Administrator account already listed in the local NetInfo node (UID 501). Use the short name as listed in WGM.
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Hi Avihai,<o:p></o:p>
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This is normal behavior. This kind of status will be
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Hi Avihai,<o:p></o:p>
Problem 1: Machine & Agent role shown Unknown.<o:p></o:p>
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Thanks,
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Hi,
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2.     Select   Operation Management Processes and Tasks Manage Processes .
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