It doesn't matter if puppetmasterd or puppetd are running and working if your clients are failing catalog runs.
Send reports, write a check that alerts on N hosts with failed reports over X timeframe or something. On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 8:09 PM, Tim Connors <tim.w.conn...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, 4 Oct 2011, Bernd Adamowicz wrote: > > > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > > > Von: puppet-users@googlegroups.com [mailto:puppet- > > > us...@googlegroups.com] Im Auftrag von Marcus, Allan B > > > Gesendet: Dienstag, 4. Oktober 2011 15:47 > > > An: puppet-users@googlegroups.com > > > Betreff: [Puppet Users] How best to monitor puppet? > > > > > > We want to use Nagios to monitor out puppet server so we can be > > > notified > > > if it goes down. We are using Fusion Passenger and Apache on Red Hat. > > > > > > Any suggestion for what and how to monitor? > > > > We use the basic checks for any Unix machine along with special checks > for running Puppet master and client process where appropriate. A service > which uses NRPE and a check_procs call on the Puppet boxes like these two > examples works fine for us: > > > > Command[check_puppetmaster]=/usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/check_procs -w 1:1 > -c 1:1 -C puppetmasterd > > Command[check_puppetclient]=/usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/check_procs -w 1:1 > -c 1:1 -C puppet > > > > Bernd > > > > What about checking the logfile on the master to make sure that everything > is checking in? Theoretically, the client daemons could be running and > accepting port 8140, but the daemon could be locked up: > > http://cafuego.net/2011/09/24/keeping-eye-puppet-updated > > > -- > Tim Connors > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
