Re: Monitoring Java JVM......

From:
Lew <noone@lewscanon.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.help
Date:
Sat, 03 Apr 2010 10:21:25 -0400
Message-ID:
<hp7it6$dka$1@news.albasani.net>
Jayesh Thakrar wrote:

Mikoomi is an enterprise-level monitoring solution and framework based
on one of the best open source monitoring products out there -
ZABBIX.
Mikoomi is packaged as a virtual appliance and combines Zabbix with
Ubuntu, Apache, MySQL and PHP.

Free and open-source agents are available for monitoring DB2 and Java
JVM and additional agents will be developed and released on a regular
basis.


The website is clean, attractive and well organized. While I have not tried
the product, I note that on the site you make mistakes:

- in brand names, which bespeaks unprofessionalism:

"... the Sun J2SE JDK ..."

"... The Java JVM Monitoring Agent is used to monitor a Java Virtual Machine
(JVM) using Java Management Extensions (JMX) which is part of the Java
Standard Edition since J2SE 5.0."

- in grammar and usage:

   = no comma prior to "which" in the above quoted passage, albeit that is a
subtle one.

   = "... two untar'ed files ... user-id ..." (plus inconsistent use of
terminating periods in that bullet list).

   = "... the appropriate DB2 related environment variables ..."

   = "The agent is built-in into the base ..."

   = inconsistent spelling of "ZABBIX" vs. "Zabbix".

   = "... required that the server also have an install of DB2 client s/w ..."
  (Were your fingers too tired to type "software"?)

all of which you nearly make up for by spelling "complementary" correctly.

- in facts about Java, which makes one wonder how good a job you could
possibly have done:

"... a JVM running Java programs ("class" or "jar" file) ..."

As for Roedy's thought that you offer a "free gift", it's clear that this is a
commercial site with a profit motive.

Technically what worries me is that the system is based on PHP and MySQL and
requires yet another product, Zabbix, though at least that latter seems like a
pretty standard offering from many Linuces, including Ubuntu.

--
Lew

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