Monitor Your Business

Monitor your Business Lars Jankowfsky, CTO, swoodoo GmbH

Who is talking ? Lars Jankowfsky: - CTO swoodoo.com - php since php/fi - Developer since 15 years Lars Jankowfsky, swoodoo.com

Preface - No rocket science today - using existing widespread tools to create intelligent business monitoring - nagios - cacti Lars Jankowfsky, swoodoo.com

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 Lars Jankowfsky, swoodoo.com

Nagios for business monitoring - orders (eCommerce) - imported data (webservices) - customer activity (web 2.0) - ... Lars Jankowfsky, swoodoo.com

Nagios - the script #!/usr/bin/php <?php $value = rand(0,100); if ($value < 50) { echo(quot;VALUE WARNING - we got $value|v=$valuequot;); exit(1); } else { echo(quot;VALUE OK - we got $value|v=$valuequot;); 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 Lars Jankowfsky, swoodoo.com

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 } Lars Jankowfsky, swoodoo.com

Nagios - the result Lars Jankowfsky, swoodoo.com

cacti - popular open source RRD graphing tool - http://www.cacti.net - apt-get install cacti Lars Jankowfsky, swoodoo.com

cacti - for business monitoring - graphs for management e.g. - orders, sales - conversion rates - booking/visitor rate - import/sec. rate - ... Lars Jankowfsky, swoodoo.com

cacti - the script very basic example... /usr/local/share/cacti/scripts/test.php #!/usr/bin/php <?php // input in $argv $a = rand(0,100); $b = rand(0,100); echo(quot;OK:$a ERR:$bquot;); Lars Jankowfsky, swoodoo.com

cacti - configuration #1 - create data input method advice: add suffix ‘Data Input Method’. Lars Jankowfsky, swoodoo.com

cacti - configuration #2 - add data input method fields Lars Jankowfsky, swoodoo.com

cacti - configuration #3 - create data template Lars Jankowfsky, swoodoo.com

cacti - configuration #4 - add data template fields Maximum value 0 has special meaning. It means that threshold for maximum value. Lars Jankowfsky, swoodoo.com be sure that everything is correc No changes possible later!

cacti - configuration #5 - create graph template... #6 - create graph template items after that add type „legend“ Lars Jankowfsky, swoodoo.com

cacti - configuration #6 - create graph template items Lars Jankowfsky, swoodoo.com

cacti - configuration #7 - create graph make sure that everything is correct. You can‘t change contents later - need to recreate Lars Jankowfsky, swoodoo.com

cacti - configuration #7 - add into tree Lars Jankowfsky, swoodoo.com

cacti - that‘s it... Lars Jankowfsky, swoodoo.com

Talking about the php.... - no reason to hack! - use same source for cacti and nagios! - don‘t forget the tests... Lars Jankowfsky, swoodoo.com

Talking about the php.... Lars Jankowfsky, swoodoo.com

Questions? Lars Jankowfsky, swoodoo.com

Thank you for your interest! eMail: lars.jankowfsky@swoodoo.com Lars Jankowfsky, swoodoo.com

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Monitor Your Business

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