Hostmeter

A pilot can view all important statistics in his cockpit, so why not a network administrator? Hostmeter is a NINO utility to display the router or host status in one dashboard. All important statistics are shown as meters and bars in a cockpit dashboard style. This contains CPU, memory, processes, storage and system information.

Hostmeter features

Hostmeter main screen

The Hostmeter main sreen is divided into three areas. On the left the CPU, load and memory statistics are displayed. Also the status of monitored processes (hosts only) can be displayed. In the middle the system info, such as Operating System, BIOS, hardware info and other information is shown. The info button will show the device info screen to set hostname, contact en location. The processes button will show the top processes list. The network button will show the network status. The storage statistics are displayed in the right area of the hostmeter dashboard. This is an example of a windows server running on Dell hardware.

	1 % 9 % CPU0 % CPU1 % 18 % 34.3 % VirtualMemory % PhysicalMemory% Process Status lsass.exe Normal sqlservr.exe Normal dns.exe Normal Hostname: US383ADS01 Manufacturer: Dell Computer Corporation Model: PowerEdge 1750 SerialNumber: G2WQ01J SystemType: X86-based PC Number of CPU: 2 cpu, 2784 MHz PhysicalMemory: 2 GB BIOS: Phoenix ROM BIOS PLUS Version 1.10 A06 Users: 15 Processes: 49 WMI_LogicalDisk 0 % A: 44 % C: 17.4 % D: 87.7 % Z:

Processes

The processes are displayed sorted by CPU usage. For each process the CPU tics and memory usage is shown. It is possible to view detail process info by clicking on the process name. It is also possible to navigate in time by clicking First, Prev, Next or Last. Exit will go back to the Hostmater main screen. To view a graph of process resources, click on the button.

CentiSecs/S	Memory		PID	Name	Long name	Type	Status
0.3071	48.8 MByte		1924	sqlservr.exe		Application	running
0.2835	17 MByte		928	svchost.exe	C:\WINDOWS\System32\ -k netsvcs	Application	running
0.2520	39.8 MByte		500	lsass.exe	C:\WINDOWS\system32\	Application	running
0.1575	228 kByte		4	System		Operating System	running
0.1496	4.7 MByte		1396	dfssvc.exe	C:\WINDOWS\system32\	Application	running
0.1024	5.7 MByte		856	wmiprvse.exe		Application	running
0.0472	133.7 MByte		488	services.exe	C:\WINDOWS\system32\	Application	running
0.0236	5 MByte		2908	snmp.exe	C:\WINDOWS\System32\	Application	running
0.0236	5.7 MByte		444	winlogon.exe		Application	running
0.0157	4.8 MByte		708	svchost.exe	C:\WINDOWS\System32\ -k termsvcs	Application	running

Process resources graph

This screen will show a graph of process CPU and memory usage. This makes it very easy to troubleshoot applications, find memory leaks and more. This is an example of a squid proxy process running on a Unix server.

Detailed process info

This screen will show detailed process information. Set the severity in process monitor alarm to monitor the status of the process. The status is displayed in the Hostmeter main screen. It is also possible to send alarms into the eventlog if a process is not running anymore. The status events will be displayed in the eventlog. This can be done by checking the status checkbox in the monitoring configuration.

The device discovery process will use a default process list to detect what processes should be monitored. This can be changed by checking the Update discovery process list checkbox. This way it is possible to create a customized process list that can be used for a discovery of new servers.

Network status

Hostmeter will show the network status if the network is monitored. This is an example of a Sun Solaris web server with multiple interfaces.

Hostmeter needs monitoring

Hostmeter depends on monitoring presets that monitor CPU, memory, storage and processes. Using the default discovery process NINO will detect the device monitoring capabilities and for servers it will detect the most important processes to monitor. If the auto-discovery is disabled, the device monitoring should be configured. Preset groups or individual monitoring presets must be activated for devices to view status meters. A special HostProcs preset is responsible for monitoring host processes. This preset is member of the Windows and Linux preset group. In the preset group or HostProcs preset the status checkbox must be checked to get status alarms in the eventlog

Preset Groups for US383ADS01	Monitor	Status
FrameRelay
Internet
Linux
Network
Windows
ciscoCAT
ciscoIOS
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