Re: [icinga-users] Monitoring HA clusters

2018-06-01 Thread Lee Clemens
Hi Antony, On 05/31/2018 05:12 PM, Antony Stone wrote: > On Thursday 31 May 2018 at 22:14:04, Chris Boot wrote: > [snip] > > 2. There is a "cluster-zone" Icinga2 check command, which may be what you > need > (if you can find some sufficiently clear documentation about it; I think this > is >

Re: [icinga-users] Monitoring HA clusters

2018-06-01 Thread Peter Eckel
Hi Chris, for me, the main question is what you want to monitor on the HA cluster. I always follow a differentiated approach: There are two types of services: Load balanced services that normally run on all cluster nodes, and services that fail over to another node if the current node fails.

Re: [icinga-users] Monitoring HA clusters

2018-05-31 Thread Antony Stone
On Thursday 31 May 2018 at 22:14:04, Chris Boot wrote: > Hi list, > > In the old days of Nagios and NRPE, monitoring HA clusters was a simple > enough hack: declare a host that represents the services provided by the > cluster, assign a virtual IP address that floats with the services > (which yo

[icinga-users] Monitoring HA clusters

2018-05-31 Thread Chris Boot
Hi list, In the old days of Nagios and NRPE, monitoring HA clusters was a simple enough hack: declare a host that represents the services provided by the cluster, assign a virtual IP address that floats with the services (which you probably need to have anyway), then have Nagios prod NRPE on the v