SIM system and services monitor
SIM is a system and services monitor for ‘SysVinit’ systems. It is designed to be intuitive and modular in nature, and to provide a clean and informative status system.
It does this by consistently verifying that services are online, load averages are in check, and log files are at reasonable sizes. Many other SIM modules sport different and in-depth features to bring a well rounded tool to your disposal to stop otherwise common issues daunting internet hosts.
Features:
– Service monitoring of HTTP, FTP, DNS, SSH, MYSQL & more
– Event tracking and alert system
– Auto restart ability for downed services
– Checks against network sockets & process list to ensure services are online
– Advanced HTTP service monitoring, to prevent commonly encountered issues
– System load monitor with customizable warnings & actions
– Ability to auto restart system with definable critical load level
– Priority change configurable for services, at warning or critical load level
– Informative command line status display
– Easily customizable configuration file
– Auto configuration script
– Auto cronjob setup feature
– Simple & Informative installation script
– Integrated auto-update feature
– And more…
From http://www.r-fx.org/sim.php
Installation is one more time straightforward:
# wget http://www.r-fx.ca/downloads/sim-current.tar.gz
# tar xvf sim-current.tar.gz
# cd sim-*
The installation of sim is easily acomplished, a simple shell script named ‘setup’ is included with SIM. Running this script will tend to all the install tasks for SIM.# ./setup -i
-i Install
-q Quick install
-u Uninstall
-c Install/Uninstall cronjob
Press "SPACE" to go to the next page when you read the licence.
Press "RETURN" to quit
The readme is then displayed, press "SPACE", then "RETURN"
Ideally once SIM is configured it is best to run from a cronjob. The 'setup'
SIM 2.5-4 <[email protected]>
Creating installation paths: [##########]
Installing SIM 2.5-4 to /usr/local/sim: [##########]
SIM 2.5-4 installation completed, related notes:
Executable: /usr/local/sim/sim
Executable symlink: /usr/local/sbin/sim
Config file: /usr/local/sim/conf.sim
Autoconf script: /usr/local/sim/autoconf
Autoconf symlink: /usr/local/sbin/sim-autoconf
Cronjob setup: /usr/local/sim/sim -j
SIM 2.5-4 must now be configured for use on this system, Press
return to run the autoconf script (/usr/local/sim/autoconf).
SIM 2.5-4 Auto-Config Script
All questions default to value in brackets if no answer is given. If you
make a typo during the autoconf process, hit CTRL+C (^C) to abort and
rerun the autoconf script (/usr/local/sim/autoconf).
The below are general configuration options for SIM:
press return to continue...
Where is SIM installed ?
[/usr/local/sim]: "RETURN"
Where should the sim.log file be created ?[/usr/local/sim/sim.log]: "RETURN"
Max size of sim.log before rotated ? (value in KB)
[128]: "RETURN"
What is the location of your kernel log ?
Found kernel log at /var/log/messages "RETURN"
Where should alerts be emailed to ? (e.g: root, [email protected])
[root]: [email protected] "RETURN" enter a external email, not one from the mail server domain!
Disable alert emails after how many events, to avoid email flood ?
(Note: events stats are cleared daily)
[8]: "RETURN"
The below are configuration options for Service modules:
press return to continue...
Auto-restart services found to be offline ? (true=enable, false=disable)
[true]: "RETURN"
Enforce laxed service checking ? (true=enable, false=disable)
[true]: "RETURN"
Disable auto-restart after how many downed service events ?
(Note: events stats are cleared daily)
[10]: "RETURN"
Enable FTP service monitoring ? (true=enable, false=disable)
[false]: "RETURN"
Name of the FTP service as appears in 'ps' ?
Warning: bad ps syntax, perhaps a bogus '-'? See http://procps.sf.net/faq.html
Found service name as proftpd
TCP/IP port that FTP operates on ?
[21]: "RETURN"
Path to FTP service init script ?
[/etc/init.d/proftpd]: "RETURN"
Enable HTTP service monitoring ? (true=enable, false=disable)
[false]:true "RETURN"
Name of the HTTP service as appears in 'ps' ?
Warning: bad ps syntax, perhaps a bogus '-'? See http://procps.sf.net/faq.html
Found service name as httpd
TCP/IP port that HTTP operates on ?
[80]: "RETURN"
Path to HTTP service init script ?
[/etc/init.d/httpd]: "RETURN"
Enable DNS service monitoring ? (true=enable, false=disable)
[false]:true "RETURN"
Name of the DNS service as appears in 'ps' ?
Warning: bad ps syntax, perhaps a bogus '-'? See http://procps.sf.net/faq.html
Found service name as named
TCP/IP port that DNS operates on ?
Found service port as 53
Path to DNS service init script ?
Found service init script at /etc/init.d/named
Enable SSH service monitoring ? (true=enable, false=disable)
[false]:true "RETURN"
Name of the SSH service as appears in 'ps' ?
Warning: bad ps syntax, perhaps a bogus '-'? See http://procps.sf.net/faq.html
Found service name as sshd
TCP/IP port that SSH operates on ?
Found service port as 22 "RETURN"
Path to SSH service init script ?
Found service init script at /etc/init.d/sshd
Enable MYSQL service monitoring ? (true=enable, false=disable)
[false]:true "RETURN"
Name of the MYSQL service as appears in 'ps' ?
Warning: bad ps syntax, perhaps a bogus '-'? See http://procps.sf.net/faq.html
Found service name as mysqld
TCP/IP port that MYSQL operates on ?
Found service port as 3306
Path to MYSQL service init script ?
Found service init script at /etc/init.d/mysql
Enable SMTP service monitoring ? (true=enable, false=disable)
[false]: "RETURN"
Enable XINET service monitoring ? (true=enable, false=disable)
[false]:true
Name of the XINET service as appears in 'ps' ?
Warning: bad ps syntax, perhaps a bogus '-'? See http://procps.sf.net/faq.html
Found service name as xinetd
TCP/IP port that any XINET service operates on (e.g: pop3, 110) ?
[110]: "RETURN"
In computer networking, xinetd, the eXtended InterNET Daemon, is an open-source daemon which runs on many Unix systems and manages Internet-based connectivity. It offers a more secure extension to or version of inetd, the Internet daemon.
xinetd features access control mechanisms such as TCP Wrapper ACLs, extensive logging capabilities, and the ability to make services available based on time. It can place limits on the number of servers that the system can start, and has deployable defence mechanisms to protect against port scanners, among other things. from WikiPedia
Path to XINET service init script ? see www.xinetd.org/faq.html and Found service init script at /etc/init.d/xinetd
Enable ENSIM service monitoring ? (true=enable, false=disable)
[false]: "RETURN"
Enable PGSQL service monitoring ? (true=enable, false=disable)
[false]: "RETURN"
The below are configuration options for Service Specific features:
press return to continue...
After an unclean HTTP shutdown, semaphore array's may remain allocated
and cause the service to fall into a looping restart cycle. Using this
feature clears semaphore arrays on HTTP restart.
Enable semaphore cleanup ?
[false]: "RETURN"
This is an implamented feature in the http module, its purpose is to
determine if/when the apache server locks up or otherwise stops
responding.
Enable URL aware monitoring ?
[false]: "RETURN"
HTTP log files can grow large and cause the service to crash
(segfault), this feature will keep the main HTTP logs incheck.
Enable HTTP log monitor ?
[false]:true "RETURN"
What is the location of your HTTP servers, log files ?
(should point to a directory, not file)
[/var/log/httpd]:/var/log/apache2
Max size of HTTP log files, before cleared ? (value in MB)
[300]: "RETURN"
MySQL uses a /tmp symlink of its mysql.sock socket file. This
feature verifies that the symlink exists from the main mysql.sock
file, and if not it is recreated.
Enable MySQL Socket correction ?
[false]: "RETURN"
The below are configuration options for System modules:
press return to continue...
Enable NETWORK monitoring ? (true=enable, false=disable)
[false]:true "RETURN"
interface to monitor ?
[eth0]: "RETURN"
Path to NETWORK init script ?
Found service init script at /etc/init.d/network
Enable LOAD monitor ? (true=enable, false=disable)
[false]: "RETURN"
Configuration completed, saving conf.sim...
Done, conf.sim saved to /usr/local/sim.
# ./setup -c
SIM 2.5-4 <[email protected]>
Removed SIM cronjob.
# ./setup -c
SIM 2.5-4 <[email protected]>
Installed SIM cronjob.
if everything goes well, you can check the installation by typing:
# /etc/init.d/mysqld stop
This will stop mysql daemon!, You will receive an email at the same time, showing that mysql has been stopped and restarted
System integrity monitor on xxxxx has taken action in responce to an event. Recent event logs are enclosed below for your inspection. There has been 1 events today, if an average of 8 events is reached, e-mail alerts will be terminated for the duration of the day.
- Events Summary:
Total event count: 1
Average event count: 0
- Service Summary:
FTP [online - 0 events]HTTP [online - 0 events]
DNS [online - 0 events]
SSH [online - 0 events]
MYSQL [restart success- 1 events]
XINET [online - 0 events]
- System Summary:
NETWORK [eth0 - online - 0 events]
- SIM Log:
[07/21/07 12:10:01]: touched log file.
[07/21/07 12:10:01]: sim.dat not found, created.
[07/21/07 12:10:01]: no .chk modules enabled.
[07/21/07 12:15:03]: no .chk modules enabled.
[07/21/07 12:20:01]: no .chk modules enabled.
[07/21/07 12:25:01]: NETWORK is online.
[07/21/07 12:25:01]: FTP service is offline.
[07/21/07 12:25:01]: FTP service is offline.
[07/21/07 12:25:01]: FTP restart failed, could not find /etc/init.d/proftpd.
[07/21/07 12:25:01]: FTP restart failed, could not find /etc/init.d/proftpd.
[07/21/07 12:25:01]: HTTP service is online.
[07/21/07 12:25:01]: DNS service is online.
[07/21/07 12:25:01]: SSH service is online.
[07/21/07 12:25:01]: MYSQL service is online.
[07/21/07 12:25:01]: XINET service is online.
