Submitted by:

Eric Feldman

This ZenPack provides OS and Filesystem modeling and performance monitoring. It was built and tested against NetWare 6.5 SP7 (OES2-NetWare) servers in a 200+ server network. It is still a work in progress, but it is functional.

This ZenPack was inspired by and based in part on work done for the NetApp, AIX and HP-UX plugins, as well as the work by James Drews on MRTGEXT.NLM.

This ZenPack may be overkill for some scenarios – you could disable a lot of the performance monitoring in the Device template if you don’t need it.

• Perl on the Zenoss server (a Perl script is run by zencommand that can pull 10 different statistics at a time instead of 1 at a time like the Nagios check_nwstat)
• MRTGEXT.NLM (a third-party module by James Drews) from http://forge.novell.com/modules/xfmod/project/?mrtgext must be loaded on every server being monitored – this is the “agent” that is polled for non-SNMP data
• SNMP and the in-the-box standard NetWare Management Agent (NMA5) must be loaded on every server being monitored for SNMP instrumentation

• A new device class = /Devices/Server/NetWare
• Filesystem modeling collector plugin and a Filesystem template for performance monitoring, including display and calculation of purgeable disk space on NetWare volumes (done using SNMP and a shell script routine on the Zenoss server to calculate usedBlocks). The _ADMIN volume is dropped since it’s not a “real” volume.
• OS Modeling (memory and swap size) collector plugins
• OS and memory performance monitoring via a Device template  
  • Processor utilization
  • Load averages (1 min/5 min/15 min)
  • Connections and peak use
  • Packet Receive Buffers (Current and Max)
  • Directory Cache Buffers (Current and Max)
  • Service Processess (Current and Max)
  • Read/Write and disk I/O activity
  • Logical and Physical Memory breakdown (based on Remote Manager reports)
• Thresholds/alerts for:  
  • Abends
  • Page Faulted Memory Spaces
  • Directory Services open/closed
  • Time synchronizaton status
• IP Service monitor for NCP (port 524)
• zLink to standard Novell Remote Manager port (8008) on the Status tab
• All current Novell MIB files added to Zenoss for trap handling
• Software inventory info for SP5 and SP7 added to Novell vendor listing

Screenshots:

REQUIREMENTS:

     Zenoss Version: 2.2

     ZenPack Dependencies:

     External Dependencies:

     Installation:

Source: http://zenpacks.zenoss.org/trac-zenpacks/browser/zenpacks/ZenPacks.community.NetWare

Tagged Releases:

     http://zenpacks.zenoss.org/trac-zenpacks/browser/tags/netware-1.0

Change History:

Trac tickets: http://zenpacks.zenoss.org/trac-zenpacks/report/1

Known issues:

Things to do:

• Threshold alerts for approaching the maximum settings on Packet Receive Buffers, Directory Cache Buffers, and Service Processes are disabled and should not be used – still trying to work around the problem of referring to an RRD when the data hasn’t been gathered yet. Activating these will cause zencommand to not work.
• Improve the threshold alerts for disk space to be dynamically calculated
• Novell Clustering support (either integrated or as a separate ZenPack)