[Hyperic-hq-discuss] Monitoring via arbitary script

[Murray B. <hq-...@hy...>]

We have a home grown monitoring system which is causing us endless trouble and we are looking to Hyperic as a possible replacement. One of the things that our existing system does which is very handy is that it lets us monitor anything via an arbitrary script. This is useful for monitoring resources which are external to our infrastructure but critical to our applications. Also for those things that do not have their own monitoring solution. 

The way it works is that you tell the monitoring system the name of the script and the expected result. If the result is a metric then it drops this into the database so that it can be monitored. If the value received is out of range (or not what was expected for a string) then it raises an alert.

Is there any way we can get the Hyperic agent to do something similar for us?

Thanks . . . Murray