Hi, We do an last-seen output on the policy server to if the connection time has not been to long...
Regards, Tom --- On Thu, 1/21/10, Erlend Leganger <erlend.legan...@gmail.com> wrote: > From: Erlend Leganger <erlend.legan...@gmail.com> > Subject: How do you monitor your cfengine client instances? > To: "Cfengine help" <help-cfengine@cfengine.org> > Date: Thursday, January 21, 2010, 10:00 AM > I have played with cfengine for a while and > set up an environment with about 20 client machines.One day > /var/cfengine/inputs was empty on one of these machines. I > don't know why and it was easy to fix, but I wasn't > warned about it - I came across it by accident. So, how many > of my cfengine-activated clients do really run cfengine? I > ended up visiting all of them and found a few more with > problems - such a brute force method doesn't scale > well. > > How do you monitor this? Maybe activate a policy > from time to time to send an email to you? Analyse the log > files to verify that all clients check in every hour (my > clients are on an hourly cf-execd)? Use other tools such as > ganglia/nagios/icinga? Any best practice here? > > - Erlend Leganger > > -----Inline Attachment Follows----- > > _______________________________________________ > Help-cfengine mailing list > Help-cfengine@cfengine.org > https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine > _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
