Requirements for configuring SMS Notifications in Big Brother
To send an SMS message there are two options: 1.Through an email to pager gateway. This requires the user to define, in bbwarnrules.cfg, the recipient as ep-XXXXXXXXXX where “XXXXXXXXXX” is the email address by the provider. 2. Install a modem on the BBPAGER server and configure the recipient as sms-smsrecipient where smsrecipient is a name that is defined and configured in bbwarnsms.cfg For detail steps for setup instructions (for bbwarnsetup.cfg and bbwarnrules.cfg) please see solution (23566) at the following link https://support.quest.com/eSupport/solution.asp?WAid=268468886 (more…)
There are instances where you will want to hide a test on the Big Brother display. For instance, if you followed the article to configure memory testing and graphing, you would want to hide the “mem” column.
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This post is about memory tests and memory graphing for Big Brother. Out of the box, BB 4.1 Professional tests memory fine on Windows boxes, but not Linux.
bb-memory 3.1
This external script will perform tests on memory for Linux, including physical memory, actual memory and swap memory. Download it here. Here are the instructions, pretty easy:
Linux
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Your servers! In all the years of administration, I can’t believe I overlooked this great monitoring tool. It was originally developed on the Linux platform, but now has support for the Windows platform as well as a Big Brother server. Clients can be of any flavor platform, including SNMP devices. It’s time I worked up documentation as we are using it at our office, and plan on rolling it out to all of our data centers to monitor mission critical operations. (more…)
