DirX Directory Nagios Plugins

The DirX Directory Nagios plugins are a set of Perl-based executables that allow DirX Directory administrators to use the Nagios® Core™ Open Source monitoring application to monitor the status of important DirX Directory resources and operations and collect statistics about these resources and operations for long-term performance analysis.

DirX Directory provides the following plugins for monitoring the DirX Directory service with Nagios:

  • The check_dirx_backup_status plugin, which evaluates the status of the most recent DirX Directory database backup operation.

  • The check_dirx_ctx plugin, which monitors the CTX memory consumption of a DSA or an LDAP server.

  • The check_dirx_dbam_preload_status plugin, which checks the status of the DirX Directory service database cache preloader.

  • The check_dirx_dbam_usage plugin, which monitors the capacity of DBAM devices.

  • The check_dirx_dsa_get_opmode plugin, which checks the current operation mode of the DirX Directory service.

  • The check_dirx_heartbeat plugin, which checks the responsiveness of the DirX Directory service in a standalone or supplier-consumer replication configuration.

  • The check_dirx_ldap_current and check_dirx_ldap_totals plugins, which check the current value of a specified MIB counter for an LDAP server.

  • The check_dirx_ldap_duration plugin, which monitors the duration of LDAP client calls.

  • The check_dirx_ldap_resultsize plugin, which monitors the result sizes of executed LDAP searches.

  • The check_dirx_no_of_fds plugin, which monitors file descriptor usage for a DSA or LDAP server.

  • The check_dirx_server_files plugin, which checks the number of files below the server/ldif and server/supdate subdirectories to monitor LDIF and shadowing agreement administration.

The information provided in this chapter requires familiarity with the basic principles of Nagios monitoring and configuration. See the Nagios documentation for complete details.