This article applies to PRTG Network Monitor 18 or later

Monitoring NextGen (Mirth) Connect with PRTG

You can monitor your NextGen (Mirth) Connect communication server with the EXE/Script Advanced sensor from PRTG and a custom script. With the custom script, you can create a custom Mirth System Health sensor and a custom Mirth Channel Stats sensor. These sensors allow you to monitor important parameters of the communication server.

Create a New Device

• Create a new device in PRTG with the IP address of the NextGen (Mirth) Connect communication server. We recommend that you use a new device to avoid issues if the Linux credentials change.
• In the device's settings, enter your NextGen (Mirth) Connect username and password under Credentials for Linux/Solaris/Mac OS (SSH/WBEM) Systems.
• Click OK to continue.

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Note: You can use a custom device template to automatically add the custom Mirth sensors to your device. See Auto-Discovery via Device Template below.

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Monitoring Mirth System Health

You can monitor system health using the EXE/Script Advanced sensor and our custom script to create a custom Mirth System Health sensor. You can find the script in the PRTG eHealth-NEXTGEN-Connect project on GitLab. With this sensor, you can monitor

• CPU %
• Free Memory
• Free Disk Space

1. Copy the script prtg_mirth.ps1 and save it in the Custom Sensors\EXEXML subfolder of the PRTG program directory.

2. Create a new EXE/Script Advanced sensor.

3. Under EXE/Script select prtg_mirth.ps1.

4. Enter the following under Parameters

prtg_mirth.ps1 <IP/DNS> <port> <%linuxuser> <%linuxpassword> "system"

5. Replace <IP/DNS>, <port>, <username>, and <password>.

6. Click Create to add the sensor.

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Monitoring Individual Interfaces

You can also monitor individual interfaces using the EXE/Script Advanced sensor and the same custom script as mentioned above to create a custom Mirth Channel Stats sensor. This sensor monitors the number of sent and received messages as well as faulty and buffered messages of the following channels:

• Received
• Sent
• Filtered
• Error
• Queue

Follow the same steps as with the custom Mirth System Health sensor but under Parameters, enter the following

prtg_mirth.ps1 <IP/DNS> <port> <username> <password> "channel" <channelID>

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Auto-Discovery via Device Template

You can also use a custom device template so that PRTG regularly scans the device and creates sensors for newly added channels from Mirth.

• Copy the prtg_mirth_template.odt from the PRTG eHealth-NEXTGEN-Connect project on GitLab.
• Save it in the \devicetemplates subfolder of the PRTG program directory
• In the device's settings, go to section Device Type.
• Under Sensor Management, select the option Automatic sensor creation using specific device template(s).
• Select the template NEXTGEN (Mirth) Connect.
• Select a Discovery Schedule.
• Click Save to continue.

Debugging

For debugging purposes, you can also add the -Verbose parameter to enable logging to the console.

Aug, 2018 - Permalink