On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 8:09 AM, Justin Lloyd <jll...@digitalglobe.com>wrote:
> Has anyone done any investigation into having a monitoring tool like > Zenoss (which we use), Nagios, or OpenNMS watch for repairs? I use Nagios to capture the tail of promises.log. This is mainly to verify that cfengine is in fact running (Nagios will alert if promises.log does not contain an entry within the last N minutes). This does not show what promises are being repaired however, but IMHO this is a good thing, getting all obsessive about what repairs are occurring was one of my earlier mistakes with cfengine - just let it run and be comfortable in the knowledge that your system is in the desired state. For repairs that *fail* on the other hand, it would be extremely nice to have some way to capture that information, as it essentially means cfengine tried to bring the system to a desired state but was unable to, a situation that would probably call for urgent manual intervention. > At the very > least, centralizing at least some of Cfengine hosts' logs and using a > log-watching tool like Swatch or Splunk would be a step in the right > direction. > > Team Cfengine: Is there any kind of roadmap for integration with such > third-party monitoring tools? > > Thanks, > Justin > > -----Original Message----- > From: help-cfengine-boun...@cfengine.org > [mailto:help-cfengine-boun...@cfengine.org] On Behalf Of Neil Watson > Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 12:56 PM > To: help-cfengine@cfengine.org > Subject: Re: Email notification of repairs > > The trouble with this type of raw email notification is lack of > correlation and reliability. If the MTA is out of action you'll get no > notice. If the agent attempts repeated repairs repeated emails are > sent. This can be very disheartening. > > As has been mentioned a monitoring and alerting system would be better > for this. Something like OpenNMS can correlate events into a single > alarm and escalate notification while avoiding the information storm > than can come from 'dumb' notification services. > > -- > Neil Watson > Linux/UNIX Consultant > http://watson-wilson.ca > _______________________________________________ > Help-cfengine mailing list > Help-cfengine@cfengine.org > https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine > > This electronic communication and any attachments may contain confidential > and proprietary > information of DigitalGlobe, Inc. If you are not the intended recipient, or > an agent or employee > responsible for delivering this communication to the intended recipient, or > if you have received > this communication in error, please do not print, copy, retransmit, > disseminate or > otherwise use the information. Please indicate to the sender that you have > received this > communication in error, and delete the copy you received. DigitalGlobe > reserves the > right to monitor any electronic communication sent or received by its > employees, agents > or representatives. > > _______________________________________________ > Help-cfengine mailing list > Help-cfengine@cfengine.org > https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine >
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