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Jul 29, 2010 1:33 PM

ZenJMX - monitoring elapsed time

From what I understand I can't pull this data into Zenoss as is with ZenJMX -

 

jmx.JPG

but is there a way to convert it to another time/date format that can be used or will that have to be done on the host?

 

John

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1. Jul 30, 2010 8:58 AM in response to: istoptofly
Re: ZenJMX monitoring elapsed time

Extra info - supposedly the underlying date is in Julian format.

 

EDIT - Nope, debugging ZenJMX shows the date coming in just like JConsole shows -

 

'Queue Item Last Activity', 'value': 'Thu Jul 29 11:10:03 CDT 2010', 'dpId': 'LastActivity'}

 

John

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2. Jul 30, 2010 8:58 AM in response to: istoptofly
Re: ZenJMX monitoring elapsed time

I guess I could elaborate huh...

 

What I'm trying to do is keep track of the last activity and alert if the elapsed time exceeds a threshold - say 30 minutes.

 

Ideas?

 

John

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3. Jul 30, 2010 11:12 AM in response to: istoptofly
Re: ZenJMX monitoring elapsed time

ZenJMX just calls toString on the object returned.  You would have to modify the code to call the appropriate method on whatever type of object is being returned, assuming it isn't a string to begin with.

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4. Jul 30, 2010 12:03 PM in response to: jplouis
Re: ZenJMX monitoring elapsed time

Thanks.  We've added a new mbean that gives us that 'last activity' value in julian format and with some custom graph defs I'm able to graph and set thresholds for alerting when the value is below 1 - which basically says if the datapoint value == 0 then there hasn't been a change in the time and that's a problem.

 

Basically, I followed this post -

 

http://community.zenoss.org/message/32276#32276

 

and this doc -

 

http://community.zenoss.org/docs/DOC-2478

 

to get what I need.

 

John

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