Re: Email notification of repairs

2010-02-09 Thread Mark Burgess
You took the words right out of my mouth! :-) What the cf-monitord (new v3 cfenvd) was designed to do with its Nova extensions was to eliminate the need for SNMP by providing Unix-like sensors based on file streams and regular expressions (the two things that make Unix infinitely superior to a

Re: Email notification of repairs

2010-02-09 Thread Mark Burgess
sufficient. It will take > implementation, testing, and experience to determine this, I think. > > Justin > > -Original Message- > From: help-cfengine-boun...@cfengine.org > [mailto:help-cfengine-boun...@cfengine.org] On Behalf Of Les Mikesell > Sent: Tuesday,

Re: Email notification of repairs

2010-02-09 Thread michoski
On 2/9/10 2:16 PM, "Justin Lloyd" wrote: > Syslog-ng is what we've historically used for centralized logging and > I'll be revamping it with v3 later this year. Combined with a > logwatching tool, it makes a powerful combination with an snmp-based > monitoring tool. Intuitively, I like better the

RE: Email notification of repairs

2010-02-09 Thread Justin Lloyd
ting, and experience to determine this, I think. Justin -Original Message- From: help-cfengine-boun...@cfengine.org [mailto:help-cfengine-boun...@cfengine.org] On Behalf Of Les Mikesell Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 2:39 PM To: help-cfengine@cfengine.org Subject: Re: Email notificatio

Re: Email notification of repairs

2010-02-09 Thread michoski
On 2/9/10 1:09 PM, "Justin Lloyd" wrote: > Has anyone done any investigation into having a monitoring tool like > Zenoss (which we use), Nagios, or OpenNMS watch for repairs? At the very > least, centralizing at least some of Cfengine hosts' logs and using a > log-watching tool like Swatch or Splu

RE: Email notification of repairs

2010-02-09 Thread Justin Lloyd
t be nice to have some configurable mechanism for detecting such things as quickly as reasonably possible. Justin From: Michael Potter [mailto:mega...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 2:30 PM To: Justin Lloyd Cc: Neil Watson; help-cfengine@cfengine.org Subject: Re: Email notification of

Re: Email notification of repairs

2010-02-09 Thread Les Mikesell
On 2/9/2010 3:09 PM, Justin Lloyd wrote: > Has anyone done any investigation into having a monitoring tool like > Zenoss (which we use), Nagios, or OpenNMS watch for repairs? At the very > least, centralizing at least some of Cfengine hosts' logs and using a > log-watching tool like Swatch or Splun

Re: Email notification of repairs

2010-02-09 Thread Michael Potter
12:56 PM > To: help-cfengine@cfengine.org > Subject: Re: Email notification of repairs > > The trouble with this type of raw email notification is lack of > correlation and reliability. If the MTA is out of action you'll get no > notice. If the agent attempts repeated repai

RE: Email notification of repairs

2010-02-09 Thread Justin Lloyd
help-cfengine@cfengine.org Subject: Re: Email notification of repairs The trouble with this type of raw email notification is lack of correlation and reliability. If the MTA is out of action you'll get no notice. If the agent attempts repeated repairs repeated emails are sent. This c

Re: Email notification of repairs

2010-02-09 Thread Neil Watson
The trouble with this type of raw email notification is lack of correlation and reliability. If the MTA is out of action you'll get no notice. If the agent attempts repeated repairs repeated emails are sent. This can be very disheartening. As has been mentioned a monitoring and alerting syste

RE: Email notification of repairs

2010-02-09 Thread Justin Lloyd
ne.org Subject: Re: Email notification of repairs 2010/2/9 Deb Heller-Evans Justin, I see where you're going here - that you want to alert on unkept promises. But I am sure that like many here on this list, I receive hundreds if not thousands of emails per day that are already filtered an

Re: Email notification of repairs

2010-02-08 Thread Michael Potter
2010/2/9 Deb Heller-Evans > Justin, > > I see where you're going here - that you want to alert on unkept promises. > But I am sure that like many here on this list, I receive hundreds if not > thousands of emails per day that are already filtered and sorted with often > times more information tha

Re: Email notification of repairs

2010-02-08 Thread Deb Heller-Evans
Justin, I see where you're going here - that you want to alert on unkept promises. But I am sure that like many here on this list, I receive hundreds if not thousands of emails per day that are already filtered and sorted with often times more information than I can or want to process. Alterna

RE: Email notification of repairs

2010-02-05 Thread Justin Lloyd
ct, neither promise needs to be repaired. Justin -Original Message- From: nwat...@symcor.com [mailto:nwat...@symcor.com] Sent: Friday, February 05, 2010 11:02 AM To: Justin Lloyd Cc: help-cfengine@cfengine.org; help-cfengine-boun...@cfengine.org Subject: Re: Email notification of

Re: Email notification of repairs

2010-02-05 Thread NWatson
I don't see how this could scale. Even a small policy can have dozens of promises. A email for each one would just flood my mailbox. > For example, if I have a promise to ensure that a Solaris system?s > hostname is in /etc/nodename, I should write the promise so that it > doesn?t do anything

Email notification of repairs

2010-02-05 Thread Justin Lloyd
Hi all, I've opened a ticket on this but I wanted to share my thoughts with the community to see if anyone has had the same thought and perhaps has already implemented something to this effect. I'd like for Cfengine on each host to be able to send an email every time it tries to repair a pr