Re: Cfengine for Monitoring ????

[Mark Burgess]

Luke Kanies talked about this a while ago and I have not had time to
follow up on it. If you have any info about how ganglia works let me
know and it should be doable.

M

On Sat, 2006-01-07 at 09:12 -0500, Jason Edgecombe wrote:
> 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
> >>
> >>    
> >>
>