I was just about to see if anybody wanted to work on a nagios plugin, but googled first - https://github.com/jasonhancock/nagios-cloudstack looks interesting, for any other Opsview/Nagios peeps out there.
MIght be good to have a wiki page pointing to plugins for the various monitoring solutions. John On Apr 26, 2012, at 10:19 AM, Chiradeep Vittal wrote: > There's a few approaches to the "monitoring VMs" question. > A. Install agents on the VMs and get the agents to phone back to your > monitoring server. > B. Add a dedicated monitoring VLAN per tenant and get the tenant VMs to be > dual homed on the original isolated VLAN and the monitoring VLAN > C. Like B, but the VLAN is shared among tenants. There is no isolation > guarantees in this case. > D. Create a monitoring VLAN. Every tenant creates (or admin creates for > them) a new routing VM (can be any old Linux distro) that has an interface > on both the monitoring VLAN and the tenant's VLAN. Tenant VMs add static > routes to the monitoring server to go via the new routing VM. > > See attached PDF > You can use (D) to add any special networking service. For example you can > add a site-to-site VPN using the additional routing VM (the monitoring > VLAN becomes a VLAN with public Ips). > > > On 4/25/12 4:49 AM, "David Nalley" <da...@gnsa.us> wrote: > >> Welcome Marlon >> >>> >>> 1) Will NFS be phased out for secondary storage in the future? >> >> I don't think this is going to happen - and if it is, certainly not >> any time soon. >> >>> 2) How do we monitor VM's that are in Cloudstack when they are in an >>> isolated VLAN does anyone have a clever workaround? >> >> I dont have a good answer for this at the moment >> >>> 3) Has anyone developed a script for parsing and alerting on warning >>> events in the management Log yet? >>> >> >> So you should check out Zenoss's CloudStack ZenPack [1] they poll the >> listEvents API call and parse that for events. >> Alternatively, you could configure log4j to send logs of warning or >> higher to syslog - and thus on to some central logging facility like >> logstash, greylog, or splunk. >> >> >> >> [1] https://github.com/zenoss/ZenPacks.zenoss.CloudStack > Stratosec - Secure Infrastructure as a Service o: 415.315.9385 @johnlkinsella
