Once SNMP is set up on the server side you can start monitoring using any number of tools. I am writing the post using Red Hat because Linux can be a little more tricky to set up - on Windows Caché automatically installs a DLL to connect with the standard Windows SNMP service so should be easier to configure. In this post I will walk through the set up and configuration of SNMP for Caché on Red Hat Linux, you should be able to use the same steps for other *nix flavours.

It took me quite a few false starts and help from other folks here at InterSystems to get Caché to talk to the Operating System SNMP master agent, so I have written this post so you can avoid the same pain. While SNMP should 'just work' with Caché there are some configuration tricks and traps. The Caché online documentation includes details of the interface between Caché and SNMP. SNMP a standard way for Caché to provide management and monitoring information to a wide variety of management tools. One of the most common methods of data collection is to use SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol). However there are other ways to collect, process and display Caché performance metrics in real time either for simple monitoring or more importantly for much more sophisticated operational analytics and capacity planning. I go to pButtons first because I know it is installed with every Data Platforms instance (Ensemble, Caché, …).

In previous posts I have shown how it is possible to collect historical performance metrics using pButtons.

InterSystems Data Platforms and performance - Part 5 Monitoring with SNMP

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