This plugin allow you to monitor an Informix server. This is a local plugin, which uses Informix local tools to gather information. For more information visit the following webpage: http://pandorafms.com/index.php?sec=Library&sec2=repository&lng=es&action=view_PUI&id_PUI=591

1. Pandora FMS
Informix Monitoring

2. Informix monitoring plugin
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Index
1Introduction........................................................................................................................................ 3
2Compatibility Matrix..........................................................................................................................4
3Plugin configuration & setup .............................................................................................................5

3. 1 INTRODUCTION
This plugin allow you to monitor Informes. This is a local plugin, which uses Informix local tools to
gather information. This plugin perform several tasks:
• Get performance information from a Informix server. This needed the “onstat” tool,
credentials on the database to monitor and a full path to Informes binaries.
• Data of a filesystem (% free disk)
• Log file parsing.
• Availability information from an Informix server.
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4. 2 COMPATIBILITY MATRIX
The plugin compatibility matrix is the following:
Systems where it has been tested
• Solaris 10 SPARC V9 con Informix 11.7
Systems where it should work
• Same system or higher. Any Informix
with onstat.
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5. 3 PLUGIN CONFIGURATION & SETUP
• Install a Pandora FMS agent inside the machine which runs Informix server.
• Create and customize an specific plugin configuration file.
• Setup enviroment variables to be used by the pandora agent (depending on what user is
running the agent). This is an example:
INFORMIXDIR=/opt/IBM/informix; export INFORMIXDIR;
PATH=$INFORMIXDIR/bin:$PATH; export PATH;
INFORMIXSERVER=ol_informix1170; export INFORMIXSERVER;
ONCONFIG=onconfig.ol_informix1170; export ONCONFIG;
INFORMIXSQLHOSTS=$INFORMIXDIR/etc/sqlhosts.ol_informix1170; export INFORMIXSQLHOSTS;
INFORMIXTERM=$INFORMIXDIR/etc/termcap; export INFORMIXTERM;
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$INFORMIXDIR/lib; export LD_LIBRARY_PATH;
• Define the plugin call in your pandora agent configuration file:
module_plugin Pandora_Plugin_Informix.pl /etc/pandora/sample.conf 2> infx_error.log
Its important to redirect error output to a local file, to check for errors in case of any problem.
There are some configuration tokens in the plugin configuaration file which needs to be explained:
For more information, see the sample configuration file provided in this plugin.
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