Monitoring applications

Hi Vishal,

 

 

There are a lot of topic specific threads in this forum for solving specific problems, but few general ones on monitoring in general. I usually use a two-fold approach. I build good monitors on the BIG-IP and also employ an alerting system (Zabbix, Nagios, Opsview, etc.) to fix the nodes the BIG-IP marks down.

 

 

If you're looking for information on more complex monitoring examples, I have written a few tech tips on the subject of EAVs. Check these out:

 

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/Tutorials/TechTips/tabid/63/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/1086366/A-Brief-Introduction-To-External-Application-Verification-Monitors.aspx

 

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/Tutorials/TechTips/tabid/63/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/1086365/Dynamic-Pool-Member-Selection-Via-DNS.aspx

 

 

Let me know if you need any more direction on monitoring documentation or examples.

 

 

-George

Hi George,

 

Thanks for the reply. I have been trying to find out ways in which I could monitor applications for sometime now. Or data centre consists of ADCs from many vendors including F5.

 

 

Are you aware of any easily deployable tools, which would let me view the Data centre from an application view rather than a ADC view? All the application monitoring solutions I have come across show data from an ADCs point of view.

 

 

Thanks in Advance,

 

Vishal