On Sat, 12 Apr 2014, chris wrote:
Well, seeing all the reply, I don't think Icinga can be used as the framework for commercial self-service monitoring tools, just like monitor.us, pingdom, or site24x7.com, without further modification.
Well, that was a nice wakeup note.
Any recommended software that as these capabilities out of the box ?
If you dig deeply enough into the issue, you'll likely find that most, if not all of, the commercial solutions will have similar limitations, and there are good reasons for this. 1) Building the framework before putting it logically into operation at startup time is a complex task with a lot of variables that can only be addressed when the entire framework is taken as a whole. 2) Higly-dynamic environments usually result in chaotic results, which is precisely one outcome you want to avoid -- at all costs -- in a monitoring framework. 3) Well-designed monitoring environments take time to develop, deploy, and operate. They have the power to be extremely useful and very disruptive at the same time -- and the difference can be a knife's edge. A well-designed, implemented, and operated monitoring system can provide enormous insight into the way the "system of systems" operates and behaves; a poorly-designed, implemented, and operated one will be an endless source of noise, disruption, and interrupts. 4) Depending on what your operational policies are, the thing may have the power to wake folks up in the middle of the night. Do you want to be awoken at 03:00 by somebody else's system five time-zones away that (1) you have no knowledge of and (2) the folks at that site are not only awake but at work? That's what "highly-dynamic" environments tend to generate. 5) Monitoring, in general, is probabilistic. You're dealing with things like check-in intervals, retries on failure, and times when check- failures may be normal. These all require diligent design work at the outset so the entire system will be useful instead of an annoyance. 6) Monitoring systems tend to annoy the workers -- not the managers. It won't be the Boss who gets blown from bed in the wee hours of the morning, it'll be you. Do you want to confer the power unto others to see to it that you can't sleep? +------------------------------------------------+---------------------+ | Carl Richard Friend (UNIX Sysadmin) | West Boylston | | Minicomputer Collector / Enthusiast | Massachusetts, USA | | mailto:crfri...@rcn.com +---------------------+ | http://users.rcn.com/crfriend/museum | ICBM: 42:22N 71:47W | +------------------------------------------------+---------------------+ _______________________________________________ icinga-users mailing list icinga-users@lists.icinga.org https://lists.icinga.org/mailman/listinfo/icinga-users
