Utilizes well known command line utilities such as vmstat and ps to extract information about a Linux system. Along with Oracle and other Unix agents it is a good example for creating your own custom providers.
The agent is normally run in remote mode, as it needs to run the command line utilities on the target machine. However if the appropriate remote execution permissions are configured, the agent's providers can be modified to run their commands through rsh, rexec or similar tools.
The agent has been specifically tested with RedHat Linux 9, although it can be used as a good base for writing custom monitoring agents for any Unix based systems.
No additional configuration is required to run this agent. However a prerequisite is that the following utilities must be present on the system: iostat, mpstat, df, vmstat, ps and netstat.
The agent provides the following information: