2010/1/21 Michael Potter <mega...@gmail.com> > > On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 8:00 PM, Erlend Leganger < > erlend.legan...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 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? >> > > I use Nagios(3). I run a nagios check on each host that runs cfengine(3), > that checks that both cf-execd and cf-serverd are running, and captures the > tail of promises.log. That way, I can easily check through the Nagios web > interface the status of cfengine running on each host. It would be easy to > extend this to capture a whole lot more information, but that's all I really > need, and by the sounds of it, would probably suit you aswell. >
Thanks, I was planning to look into Nagios/Icinga anyway, so maybe this is the kick I need to get it going... Regards, Erlend
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