Simon Butcher

Since writing about how I monitor Dynamics AX batch processes from a more technical perspective, I have been asked how to set up monitoring for a complete Dynamics AX system.

Many years ago, Scott introduced me to Nagios, an open-source product designed to be able to monitor anything. At the office, we use it to monitor practically everything, and to fulfil Sarbanes-Oxley requirements, such as monitoring temperature or backup reliability. If we could, we'd monitor the coffee machine with Nagios.

Naturally since we've built our monitoring around this system, we use this to monitor our Dynamics AX environment too. Much of the information here could be adapted for monitoring other systems too, but the focus of this article will be simple monitoring for Dynamics AX.