AIX IPC Message Queues Monitoring

[Digitalvenom]

Hi All

We have an AIX system which runs 6-7 processes which communicate between them using ipc.Now the message queues store messages and gets filled over time.We need to monitor these message queues.Is that possible??

[nscott]

Digitalvenom,

If you haven't seen this doc:

http://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagi ... Nagios.pdf

Is a good read. And to address your point, I cannot find any check for ipc on the exchange, if viewing the ipcs is trivial from the command line it would be very easy to write a script to do what you want, and then use NRPE (as given in the doc above) to send the results of the script back to Nagios.