Monitoring MySQL

kris@koehntopp.de (Kristian Köhntopp) — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 16:50:54 +0200

Slides (PDF, 402K)

These are the slides for my talk "Monitoring MySQL" at the MySQL Users Conference and Expo 2007 from yesterday.

I tried to reproduce my talk as a written text, but what I attach below is somewhat more and at the same time less than what I was actually saying yesterday.

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Sysadmins Nightly Mental Pain (SNMP)

kris@koehntopp.de (Kristian Köhntopp) — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 21:07:23 +0200

Dear Diary, today I ventured into one of the darkest realms of the sysadmin profession: I started playing with SNMP. My goal was very simple and quite clearly stated: Make the output of "SHOW GLOBAL STATUS" available to a SNMP client. One would think that this is a reasonable and easily fulfilled wish.

Little did I know of the madness and despair that linger in the depths which are guarded by the dread named ASN.1 and where the noxious fumes of the organisation no longer called CCITT can still strongly be smelled.

But let us begin this story at the beginning - with a clean install of Suse Linux 10.0 and my trusty apt4rpm and me. It was my thought that the perl support of net-snmp might me handy to get me where I wanted to me: perl is easily the more convenient language for prototyping that C or C++ and getting to the data source using perl-DBI would be pretty easy. So "apt install net-snmp net-snmp-devel perl-SNMP" it was. So with my spirits high and a song on my iPod I ventured out into the documentation...

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MySQL-dump - Monitoring and Merlin

Monitoring MySQL

Sysadmins Nightly Mental Pain (SNMP)