Hyperic custom monitoring

As per my recent post, Hyperic has some nice tutorials on setting up custom monitoring. There tutorial shows you how to monitor a server that processes invoices. You basically configure hyperic to execute a script at a certain time interval. The script that they write in the tutorial monitors files moving in and out of a unix directory as the system processes invoices in their example. We used a similar script to monitor our transactions based on entries in our database. The metrics are all imported into Hyperic and from there you can set up the regular alerting and graphing etc. This is very nifty. To see the tutorial go search for hyperic invoice script using the Google search on my blog.