How up.time Works
Overview
Brief Description
up.time is a client/server system monitoring tool that allows you to gather and monitor many performance metrics on a system as well monitor and alert on popular services that systems would be running (web services, database services, middleware, etc). It will also allow you to generate graphs and manager level reports based on the statistics gathered. This is useful for trend analysis, system/service outage reporting and growth projections.
The common way to configure up.time to monitor your servers is install the up.time agent software on monitored system and have the up.time monitoring station collect statistics from the agent. Performance statistic collection is not limited to just the up.time agent. Another way to collect statistics is via Net-SNMP OIDs already installed on the system or Novell NRM if the Novell Netware machine has NRM installed. Types o performance statistics that are collected are cpu, disk usage, file system capacity, network i/o, etc.
Download
If you are reading this page, you likely have already downloaded up.time from the uptime software download page (pictured below).
If you want to download more up.time packages, you can do so from the Client Care Download page. You will need to login to the Client Care Portal with e-mail address and password that you specified during your original download to access the Downloads page. When upgrades are available for up.time, this is the place to come to download the new update.
Install Monitoring Station
Again, if you are reading this page, you likely have already installed the up.time Monitoring Station package but if not or if you are unsure of the install procedure, you can review the following to assist you with the install.
Installing the Monitoring Station on Windows
Installing the Monitoring Station Knowledge Base Article
Install Agent
The knowledge base also includes some excellent articles that explain how to install the various up.time agents that are available.
Installing the Windows Agent
Installing the Linux Agent
Installing the Solaris Agent
Installing the Various UNIX Agents
Of the other methods of monitoring systems with up.time, the following knowledge base article explains what is required for Net-SNMP agent monitoring and the Novell NRM agent requires NRM to be installed on the NetWare 6.5 system.
Next
You should now have the up.time Monitoring Station installed and a few Agents installed as well. The next step is to add those systems into up.time through the web interface. The Add Systems to up.time tutorial will explain how to do that.
If you have any difficulty with any of these instructions or you have questions that are not covered here, please contact up.time Support at support@uptimesoftware.com and they should be able to assist you.
