We just monitor the TCP port of cfengine servers with nagios. Wes
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 5:15 PM, Justin Lloyd <jll...@digitalglobe.com> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
