On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 1:30 AM, Phil Pennock <lopsa-t...@spodhuis.org>wrote:
> On 2013-03-26 at 20:52 -0700, Atom Powers wrote: > > Wouldn't it be ideal if there > > were an easy way to tie your configuration management system together > with > > your service monitoring system? > > It's ideal, right up until someone changes the configuration to drop a > bunch of services and they're automatically removed from monitoring, so > you never get told. Everything's fine with the world, as configured. > That would be an easy failure state to plan around, maybe as easy as not automatically removing services from the monitor. Where the alternative: somebody changes the configuration to add a bunch of services and they aren't automatically monitored, would be more difficult to detect and potentially just as disastrous. > Cut-outs are good engineering, to prevent failures rippling through > everything, automatically. > And integration is good engineering, to reduce management overhead and improve efficiency. Especially if you already have a configuration management system reporting host health and configuration back to a central location. Chef is attempting to integrate with Nagios, are there any others? -- Perfection is just a word I use occasionally with mustard. --Atom Powers--
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