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| Thursday, July 13, 2006: 9:00 AM-9:45 AM | |||
| Erie Room (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers) | |||
| F-11: Monitoring Techniques for WebCT Vista at the University of Florida | |||
| Detailed Description: | This session will demonstrate how the University of Florida monitors its WebCT Vista 3 installation. Hear about the technical aspects of system monitoring, including how the Nagios Monitoring Tool was configured to work with WebCT Vista. The presenters will cover not only basic system monitoring, such as disk usage and machine availability, but also more advanced monitoring capabilities, such as checking Oracle tablespace capacity and programmatic HTTP logins. | ||
| Presentation Format: | Showcase | ||
| Topic: | Integrating the campus: Technical solutions and extended uses | ||
| Target Audience: | System Administrators, Senior Administrators | ||
| Appropriate Audience Level: | Beginning or new users of WebCT, Experienced WebCT users | ||
| Abstract Text: | This showcase will demonstrate how the University of Florida monitors our WebCT Vista 3 installation. We will detail the technical aspects of system monitoring, in particular how we have configured the nagios monitoring tool to work with Vista. We intend to show how nagios is used to monitor and alert us when potential or real problem conditions arise. We will briefly describe our procedural setup for monitoring, such as the chain of notification from the monitoring tool, to our operations staff, to our on-call duty person. The technical presentation will cover not only basic system monitoring such as disk usage and machine availability, but also more advanced monitoring capabilities, such as checking Oracle tablespace capacity and programatic HTTP logins. We will detail the in-house scheduled monitoring scripts we've written, as well as the nagios tools we use. For nagios, we plan to explain both pre-existing tools and custom components. | ||
| Session Leader: | Drake Emko University of Florida | ||
| Co-presenters: | Todd Williams University of Florida Iain Moffat University of Florida | ||
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