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Argus Remote Agent

Argus can monitor various systems and parameters on servers via an agent

Installing the Agent

When you installed argus, an argus-agent was installed in your sbin directory.
  1. You will need to copy this file to your remote servers.
  2. You will need to enable it to run on your remote servers.
Your systems will be different, but often, enabling the agent to run involves:
  1. Add a line to your /etc/services
    argusagent 164/tcp
  2. Add a line to your /etc/inetd.conf
    argusagent stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/local/libexec/argus-agent argus-agent

Configuring Argus

The agent can gather all sorts of information on all sorts of subsystems on all sorts of Operating Systems. Except for yours. It works for most people, but for you, you might need to play around a bit. Just sayin'.

Somewhere at the top of your config, tell argus what port you configured the agent to use (164 in the example above):

        agent_port:     164

Configure things to monitor. You can all of the usual minvalue, maxvalue, graphing, etc. parameters just as any other service.



ParameterDescriptionExample
loadload average on the remote system
Service Agent/load {
        maxvalue:       0.5
}
diskfilesystem percent full
Service Agent/disk {
        arg:            /home/porno
        maxvalue:       85
}
netstatnetwork interface utilization
Service Agent/netstat {
        #               interface in|out
        arg:            bge0 in
        calc:           ave-rate-bits
        maxvalue:       100000000
}
smartDisk SMART status
Service Agent/smart {
        arg:            /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s2
        expect:         OK
}
zpoolzpool status
Service Agent/zpool {
        arg:            rpool
        expect:         OK
}
iostatDisk I/O
Service Agent/iostat {
        arg:            c0t0d0s2 read
        maxvalue:       15000
}