
Monitoring Large Scale Environments
Requirement: A relatively “large scale” environment (500-1000 servers) needs to be monitored, with specific KPIs tracked and trended at regular intervals. This needs to be done without adding extra packages to the current production servers, which may have only basic unix tools/commands available. There can be no impact…zero…none to the ... Read More
Scanning for Responsive Nodes
I want to check which nodes are responding to pings (which is allowed), and if they will also respond to snmp (which they shouldn’t). First I need to see all the nodes responding to pings. The most efficient way is with nmap. “nmap -T5 -sn 192.168.1.0/24 “ Use awk to ... Read More