Just because Dev/QA has the ability to power their virtual machines on and off, does not mean they (or Ops) does not need to know when a disk might be getting full.
On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 7:11 PM, Felix Cruz <felix1...@gmail.com> wrote: > No expert here, but if they can power off at anytime, then how would > Icinga distinguish a power off from a host down? You'd have to be able to > monitor for power status directly at the power socket. Even then, how > would you know if the power off status was intentional or not? > > Tel them if they want monitoring it stays on, or as the previous person > said, why bother monitoring? > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jun 15, 2016, at 7:34 AM, Pascal Larivee <plari...@internap.com> wrote: > > My question would be then, why monitor them at all? Or you could set then > in a "qa" group that sends no alert at all, only viewable on the web > interface > > -- > Pascal Larivée > Senior IT Architecture & Cloud Ops Engineer > Internap > > Unfortunately interval time may not be the best method since dev/qa people > can power their servers on and off when they want. So they could power > them on for the weekend if they're working, or they may power them off > during a workday if they have the day off. > > On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 7:21 AM, Gunnar Beutner <gunnar.beut...@netways.de > > wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> There are two things you could do about that: >> >> 1. Set the check_period attribute for those Host and Service objects – >> this way Icinga will only run checks during whatever interval you specify >> in that TimePeriod object. >> 2. Set the period attribute for whatever Notification objects you have >> for those hosts and services – that way Icinga will still check those hosts >> and services, however it will only send notifications according to the >> intervals in the TimePeriod object. >> >> Kind regards, >> Gunnar >> >> On 15/06/16 13:16, "icinga-users on behalf of Matt Shields" < >> icinga-users-boun...@lists.icinga.org on behalf of m...@shields.tv> >> wrote: >> >> I have Icinga setup to monitor our production instances in AWS, but we >> also have dev/qa resources that get shut off every night. I haven't been >> monitoring them because as soon as they power off I get flooded with alerts. >> >> >> Is there a way to monitor servers only when they are powered on? >> >> >> Thanks >> Matt >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Gunnar Beutner >> Senior Developer >> >> NETWAYS GmbH | Deutschherrnstr. 15-19 | D-90429 Nuernberg >> Tel: +49 911 92885-0 | Fax: +49 911 92885-77 >> CEO: Julian Hein, Bernd Erk | AG Nuernberg HRB18461 >> http://www.netways.de | gunnar.beut...@netways.de >> >> ** OSBConf 2016 - September - osbconf.org ** >> ** OSMC 2016 - November - netways.de/osmc ** >> _______________________________________________ >> icinga-users mailing list >> icinga-users@lists.icinga.org >> https://lists.icinga.org/mailman/listinfo/icinga-users >> > > _______________________________________________ > icinga-users mailing list > icinga-users@lists.icinga.org > https://lists.icinga.org/mailman/listinfo/icinga-users > > > _______________________________________________ > icinga-users mailing list > icinga-users@lists.icinga.org > https://lists.icinga.org/mailman/listinfo/icinga-users > >
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