Back in 2007 I created a heavily virtualzed Solaris environment running MySQL, Apache, webDAV, Subversion, Exim, Coldfusion and a bunch of other stuff.

It was fairly early days for zones, and we couldn't find any monitoring software that suited our needs particularly well. So, I wrote my own. We ran this in production for three years, and found it produced excellent results, with nothing important being missed, and very few false positives. As ever, your mileage may vary.

The client for whom this software was written no longer exists in any form. All branding and site-specific information has been removed.

Although I kept the code, I haven't yet been able to find the documentation I wrote for the system. It's a clean straightforward little system though, and I'm sure anyone sufficiently interested will work it out in no time. The scripts are well annotated with usage information, and the code and configuration files are simple.

To get up and running, install the whole lot into /usr/local/snltd_monitor. You need to create an RBAC profile, and information on exactly how to do so is in the header of the mon_exec_wrapper.sh script. There's an SMF manifest in lib/svc/manifest/ which will get things running.

Full documentation to follow, once I get hold of a copy. (Or rewrite it.) There is also a plugin to s-audit which presents a site health check using the information generated by this software, but I haven't yet ported it to the new versions of s-audit.