This is a follow-on to my original thread about creating a Solaris SMF service. Since I'm no longer doing that and have decided to let Zenoss do that, I was curious about what others are doing along these lines. A couple of things came to mind as I was mulling over how to do this.
Using SNMP to monitor cf-execd processes is probably the best way, except for the caveat about which I just learned that the SNMP MIB ends with the processes' PIDs and Cfengine by default restarts itself at 5 AM, which would lead to unnecessary alerts. Is that restart necessary and, if so, what's a good way to handle monitoring cf-execd? Zenoss could also restart cf-execd if it's been down for some specified amount of time. Also, I figured I should probably have Zenoss also monitor cf-serverd and cf-monitord, even though Cfengine already monitors and will restart them. My thought here was in case something really gets broken and either or both of those two do not start up correctly. So I figured maybe only alert if they're down for more than 20 or 30 seconds. Anyone dealing with this? Thanks, Justin -- Justin C. Lloyd Unix Infrastructure Engineer DigitalGlobe, An Imaging and Information Company 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
