Re: Cfengine for Monitoring ????

[Jason Edgecombe]

Hi Mark,

I would be interested in being able to add arbitrary metrics to cfenv in 
a way similar to gmetric for ganglia.

For example, temperature sensors or monitoring my home-grown web spam 
blockers.

Jason

Mark Burgess wrote:

> 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
> >
> >