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Supported Monitoring Stations
In order to use up.time you must install the up.time Monitoring Station software on one central system that will act as your enterprise gateway to up.time. Once users have been added to the system, they simply browse to the up.time Monitoring Station URL to access up.time. The up.time Monitoring Station is currently supported on the following operating systems:
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Windows 7, SP1 Windows Vista Windows Server 2008 Standard & Enterprise Windows Server 2003 Standard & Enterprise |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES & AS 5.5, 6 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11.1 |
Solaris 10 |
Supported Server Agents*
up.time provides detailed server resource and performance metrics with both agentless server monitoring and agent-based server monitoring, depending on the platform. Deep agentless monitoring is available on Windows (via WMI) and VMware platforms. Agents are needed for deep monitoring of AIX, Solaris, HP-UX, and Linux. For those platforms that require an agent, simply install the OS-specific up.time server agent on each server to get over 120 different metrics that can be included in your graphs and reports.
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Windows 7 Professional & Enterprise (x86,x64) Windows Server 2008 Standard & Enterprise (x86,x64) Windows Server 2003 Standard & Enterprise (x86,x64) |
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (x86, x64) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.x, 5.0-5.6, 6.0 (x86, x64) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9.x, 10.0-10.4, 11.x (x86, x64) |
AIX 4.3.x, 5.3, 6.1 (POWER4/5/6) HP-UX 11.22 (PA-RISC) HP-UX 11.23 (Itanium 2) Solaris 9, 10 (x86, SPARC64 & UltraSPARC) |
VMware ESX & ESXi 3.5, 4.0, 4.1 |
* up.time server agents are not required for:
- Agentless monitoring of VMware ESX servers and VMs managed by VMware vCenter Server
- Agentless Monitoring of Windows (via WMI)
- Agentless monitoring of servers with Net-SNMP 5.x (limited metrics)
- Agentless availability monitoring of any node or networking device (i.e. any IP device)
- See here for a full list of agentless server monitoring
up.time Monitoring Station
The up.time Monitoring Station contains both the up.time application and a central data repository where all server performance and availability data is stored. The default database that is bundled (integrated) into the up.time Monitoring Station is MySQL (i.e. you do not need to install MySQL separately as it is already built into up.time). The following databases are supported:
- MySQL 5.0
- Oracle 11g, 11g R2
- Microsoft SQL Server 2005, 2008, 2008 R2
The minimum required hardware configuration will vary depending on the number of target servers being monitored, plus other operational factors. For more information about sizing your Monitoring Station server please consult the up.time User Guide or contact uptime software Support (support@uptimesoftware.com). At a minimum we suggest:
- 2.4 GHz dual-core CPU
- 2 GB of memory
- 80 GB of disk storage
- 100 Mbps network interface
Agentless Monitoring
up.time provides deep agentless server monitoring across Windows (via WMI) and VMware, click here for a full list of available agentless server montoring. As an alternative to installing up.time server agents, servers on many different operating systems can be monitored without agents by ensuring they have Net-SNMP 5.x installed (http://net-snmp.sourceforge.net/). If this approach is preferred, only the up.time Monitoring Station needs to be installed without the up.time server agents. However, agentless monitoring will provide a very limited set of metrics (as available from Net-SNMP) for graphing and reporting purposes. For environments requiring in-depth enterprise server reporting, using up.time agents is highly recommended.
The average agent resource utilization (i.e. CPU, I/O, Disk, Memory) for servers being monitored is approximately 0.05–1.0% only at sampling time. Sampling time lasts approximately 15 seconds, so this is not a constant load and only occurs at the sampling frequency that you specify. up.time server monitoring agents also have a very small average footprint of approximately 300 KB.
