Monitor your Business
Lars Jankowfsky, CTO, swoodoo GmbH

Who is talking ?
Lars Jankowfsky:
- CTO swoodoo.com
- php since php/fi
- Developer since 15 years
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Preface
- No rocket science today
- using existing widespread tools to create
intelligent business monitoring
- nagios
- cacti
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Nagios
- popular open source network monitoring
software
- usually used mostly for networking/service
monitoring ( load,ping,mysql...)
- http://www.nagios.org
- http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/
quickstart-ubuntu.html - we will use it to modify
some business values
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Nagios for business monitoring
- orders (eCommerce)
- imported data (webservices)
- customer activity (web 2.0)
- ...
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Nagios - the script
#!/usr/bin/php
<?php
$value = rand(0,100);
if ($value < 50) {
echo(\"VALUE WARNING - we got $value|v=$value\");
exit(1);
} else {
echo(\"VALUE OK - we got $value|v=$value\");
exit(0);
}
diff types - we use Plugin Return Code:
active (nagios calls)
0 OK
passive checks write 1 WARNING
into nagios command file,
and later nagios reads. 2 CRITICAL
Asynchronous 3 UNKNOWN
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Nagios - settings
../etc/objects/commands.cfg
#TEST
define command{
command_name check-php
command_line $USER1$/check_php
}
../etc/objects/localhost.cfg
define service{
use local-service ; Name of service template to use
host_name localhost
service_description PHP
check_command check-php
}
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Nagios - the result
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cacti
- popular open source RRD graphing tool
- http://www.cacti.net
- apt-get install cacti
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cacti - for business monitoring
- graphs for management e.g.
- orders, sales
- conversion rates
- booking/visitor rate
- import/sec. rate
- ...
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cacti - the script
very basic example...
/usr/local/share/cacti/scripts/test.php
#!/usr/bin/php
<?php
// input in $argv
$a = rand(0,100);
$b = rand(0,100);
echo(\"OK:$a ERR:$b\");
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cacti - configuration
#1 - create data input method
advice: add suffix ‘Data Input
Method’.
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cacti - configuration
#2 - add data input method fields
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cacti - configuration
#3 - create data template
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cacti - configuration
#4 - add data template fields
Maximum value 0 has special
meaning. It means that threshold
for maximum value.
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No changes possible later!

cacti - configuration
#5 - create graph template...
#6 - create graph template items
after that add type
„legend“
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cacti - configuration
#6 - create graph template items
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cacti - configuration
#7 - create graph
make sure that
everything is correct.
You can‘t change
contents later - need to
recreate
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cacti - configuration
#7 - add into tree
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cacti - that‘s it...
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Talking about the php....
- no reason to hack!
- use same source for cacti and nagios!
- don‘t forget the tests...
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Talking about the php....
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Questions?
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Thank you for your interest!
eMail: lars.jankowfsky@swoodoo.com
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