Blogpost would be nice as always. Looking forward to it :)
2015-08-10 11:42 GMT+02:00 Martin Stiborský <martin.stibor...@gmail.com>: > Ok, got it working now… > After all, I've used the config synchronization and that was the key…it > looks good. Now I have to put it all in to chef recipes, so I'll go through > all of it once again and I hope to collect my notes into some meaningful > format, so I can publish it as a blogpost or something. > > On Sun, Aug 9, 2015 at 1:10 PM Martin Stiborský < > martin.stibor...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hello guys, >> after few weeks of solving netwoking problems with our provider, I'm >> finally able to start putting together "distributed" monitoring for our >> infrastructure. >> >> Starting lightly, this is the current target: >> >> Icinga master, just one for now, sitting on our premises, currently >> monitoring just itself and few other machines via icinga2 client installed >> on them and using the "command endpoint" property. This works. >> >> Now, to monitor the vitual machines hosted on the provider's site, we >> will have a satellite icinga instance, which will monitor the hosts there, >> that's the part I don't fully understand. >> The idea is that these two icinga instances, the master and the >> satellite, are independent, meaning if there is a network problem between >> the master and the satellite, the monitoring still goes on, nothing break, >> the log is replayed to the master once the network works again. >> Sound good. >> >> So the problem is - what is needed to do in order to make the satellite >> sending monitoring data to the master? >> I have to create a zone and an endpoint for the satellite, that's clear, >> this part works - I can see from the icinga2.log and also in the cluster >> health check that the satellite endpoint is connected. Api listener feature >> is configured as well. >> >> Now if I just configure few checks for the satellite itself, the configs >> are modified on the satellite icinga2 installation, are these data >> automatically send to the master? >> Because in the zone configuration, the master is parent of the satellite, >> is that how it works? >> I don't know, I've tried, but it doesn't work for me this way. >> Do I have to specify the host/commands/services configuration for the >> satellite on the master instance? Or is it enough to have in only on the >> satellite? >> I guess both…but I'm not sure. >> >> I don't know, because if I mix here the "command endpoint" thing to >> invoke a check on the satellite, then it doesn't look much like an >> "independent" to me. >> >> I don't want to bring here any zones sync now, that's another level of >> abstractions I think, I need to understand basics first. >> >> Sure I have the documentation opened, the vagrant boxes too, but I can't >> wrap my brain around it. >> >> Any hints welcomed, >> btw, thanks for all your work guys, it's fun to work with icinga2. >> >> Thanks! >> > > _______________________________________________ > icinga-users mailing list > icinga-users@lists.icinga.org > https://lists.icinga.org/mailman/listinfo/icinga-users > > -- Andreas Lehr m...@andreas-lehr.comtwitter.com/shakalandy
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