Concepts

Monitoring basics

What does Sipmon monitor?

Sipmon allows you to monitor resources. Resources can be hosts or services:

• A host is any device that has an IP address and that one wishes to monitor. For example, a physical server, a virtual machine, a temperature probe, an IP camera, a printer or a storage space. A host can have one or more associated services.
• A service is a check point, or indicator, to be monitored on a host. This can be the CPU usage rate, temperature, motion detection, bandwidth usage rate, disk I/O, and so on. A service can consist of one or several metrics.

How does the monitoring work?

In order to collect each indicator value, monitoring plugins are used which are periodically executed by a collection engine called Sipmon Engine.

How do I see the resources being monitored?

Once hosts and services are monitored, they have a status in Sipmon (e.g. OK, Warning, Critical...). You can keep track of any changes using the Monitoring > Resources Status page.

If a problem occurs (not-OK/not-UP status), contacts/users will be able to receive notifications, within set time periods.

What features can I use to help me monitor hosts?

In Sipmon, monitoring is made easy by the following elements:

• Host templates and service templates, that allow you to define default values so as to speed up the creation of these objects.

• The autodiscovery feature for hosts and services, that allows you to get a list of new hosts and services and to add them automatically to the list of monitored resources.