Re: Cfengine for Monitoring ????

[Mark Burgess]

This is not way off topic for cfengine. Cfenvd performs a certain kind
of monitoring, and recently the people from SLAC wrote cfetool which is
supposed to use some of the cfengine in an rrdtool kind of way --
although it is so poorly documented that Ihave no idea how it works.

I am hoping to get a student to make a web-based monitor using cfenvd
soon.

M

On Sat, 2006-01-07 at 10:54 +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 02:47:47PM -0800, Friendly Tourney wrote:
> >   I am using Cfengine on a bunch of linux boxes, everything is working 
> > great. I can push changes etc , it is wonderful. I am also using the 
> > "freespace" function for tracking diskspace usage on all the linux 
> > machines. 
> >   I was wondering if i can leverage cfengine to monitor cpu usage, memory 
> > usage etc. I realise that,it is not designed to be Network MONITORING Tool. 
> > What is a good approach, do i use mrtg along with cfengine ? Any ideas from 
> > users with large setups ?
> >   Ofcourse , i can use sar, top, vmstat, iostat etc on the linux box and 
> > use the stats from that data via cfengine , but that will involve a lot of 
> > work to make gui's etc.
> 
> The Right Tool For The Job, in this case, is Nagios, either with it's own
> NRPE-based resource monitoring, or SNMP-based monitoring.  The SNMP way is
> cleaner, but it does require the proper configuration of more different
> technologies than NRPE/Nagios.
> 
> (All way off-topic for a cfengine list, though, of course)
> - Matt
>