Monitis announces even more simple way to access API through Perl interface — a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language.

The new Monitis CPAN module is now publicly available. CPAN, the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network, is an archive of over 90,000 modules of software written in Perl, as well as documentation for it. Monitis CPAN Perl library acts as an interface to Monitis leading systems monitoring platform and utilizes Monitis’s REST Application Programming Interface (API) . The code is publicly available at Monitis’ github open source repository.

Over the last several weeks, Monitis has posted several articles in this blog on how to extend our all-in-one monitoring platform to enable you to explore a series of external and internal system monitors. Unlimited extensions measure almost any data and push it to Monitis. And with that data Monitis presents a nice customizable dashboard, and sysadmins can set up flexible notifications using their own thresholds. (Monitis has multiple notification channels — including live phone, email, Twitter and even URLs.)Here is a list of scripts and scenarios for sysadmins to show you how to automate routine system management tasks. Thus, you can spend more time playing golf or tennis. But if you really want to work, you can still use the information to save time and, instead, devote more resources to strategic thinking and actual IT management.

Everyone knows what Apache web server is and that the Internet basically runs on it, but few know how to effectively monitor and graph statistics of Apache. Most people just check whether the website is available and leave it at that.  The cross your fingers and hope it works solution is not acceptable for Enterprise level of monitoring.Apache has a great tool to allow you to monitor your web server, mod_status. You can monitor such things as Total kBytes served, Total Uptime, Requests/Second, and much more.

However, when you enable this module, it only presents the data on a local machine. This can get very frustrating and annoying for the sysadmin who has many web servers to monitor. You would have to load up each web page on each server that presents the stats.  How annoying, now you have great statistics, but no reasonable way to view them across your multiple web-servers.

A system administrator’s job is frequently an ongoing battle with complexity.  In an ideal world, we would manage all of our systems on similar or identical platforms, greatly simplifying the job of configuring, updating, and monitoring them.  In practice, the requirements of the applications we support often dictate that we manage a huge variety of operating systems and hardware platforms.

Fortunately, Monitis can help ease the pain of monitoring such disparate systems.  Previously, we’ve talked about how you can monitor almost any Linux and Windows health and performance metrics.  In this article, we’ll describe how Monitis makes it possible to leverage much of your work monitoring Linux systems to monitor your Mac OS X systems as well.

In previous posts, we already learned how to access Performance Counters metrics, and How to Monitor Windows Servers with VBScript, WMI and Monitis.  But, in this article, we will put everything together and create a Monits page with the most important parameters for monitoring an IIS Server in production.