Comments on: how to monitor ibm mq from nagios http://dougmunsinger.com/2008/10/how-to-monitor-ibm-mq-from-nagios.html doug munsinger Tue, 29 Sep 2009 01:42:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Tomas http://dougmunsinger.com/2008/10/how-to-monitor-ibm-mq-from-nagios.html/comment-page-1#comment-4046 Tomas Thu, 27 Aug 2009 09:40:45 +0000 http://dougmunsinger.com/?p=546#comment-4046 Hi, very nice article. I wonder if I could execute qdepth plugin with check_by_ssh. I currently do not have experience with NRPE. Thanks for help Hi, very nice article. I wonder if I could execute qdepth plugin with check_by_ssh. I currently do not have experience with NRPE. Thanks for help

]]> By: T.Rob http://dougmunsinger.com/2008/10/how-to-monitor-ibm-mq-from-nagios.html/comment-page-1#comment-65 T.Rob Wed, 22 Oct 2008 21:39:20 +0000 http://dougmunsinger.com/?p=546#comment-65 Nice article! I hadn't been paying attention and didn't know there were modules for Nagios to check WMQ. How about this for checking queue depth... <code> # Isolate the CURDEPTH element to a line, then strip the attribute so Perl gets only the value my $curdepth = `echo "display queue ('${QUEUE}')" | $MQSC $QMGRNAME | tr ')' '\n' | tr ' ' '\n' | grep CURDEPTH | tr '(' '\n' | grep -v CURDEPTH`; </code> <code> if ($curdepth == '0') { # Look for literal '0' } elsif ($curdepth > 0) { # Check against $WARN and $CRIT } else { # runmqsc command failed. QMgr down? } </code> Note that I added the QMgr name to the runmqsc command to handle cases where the QMgr is not set as the default or there is more than one. I also added logic to catch the case where WMQ is down. In the case of process monitoring, amqzmuc0 is the log formatter and I don't think it runs in all cases. A better choice might be amqzxma0 which is the execution controller. -- T.Rob Nice article! I hadn’t been paying attention and didn’t know there were modules for Nagios to check WMQ.

How about this for checking queue depth…


# Isolate the CURDEPTH element to a line, then strip the attribute so Perl gets only the value
my $curdepth = `echo "display queue ('${QUEUE}')" | $MQSC $QMGRNAME | tr ')' '\n' | tr ' ' '\n' | grep CURDEPTH | tr '(' '\n' | grep -v CURDEPTH`;


if ($curdepth == '0') {
# Look for literal '0'
} elsif ($curdepth > 0) {
# Check against $WARN and $CRIT
} else {
# runmqsc command failed. QMgr down?
}

Note that I added the QMgr name to the runmqsc command to handle cases where the QMgr is not set as the default or there is more than one. I also added logic to catch the case where WMQ is down.

In the case of process monitoring, amqzmuc0 is the log formatter and I don’t think it runs in all cases. A better choice might be amqzxma0 which is the execution controller.

– T.Rob

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