Re: Monitoring cfagent processes

[Nate Campi]

I don't remember where I got this, but parsing syslog and/or the direct
cfexecd output from my policyhost has been sufficient so far.

Of course, if cfagent isn't working on the policyhost... :(

###################################################
alerts:
        policyhost::
                #
                # Warn about hosts that have not connected within the
                # last 12 hours
                #
                FriendStatus(12)
                ifelapsed=720

###################################################

On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 10:52:52AM -0600, Russell Adams wrote:
> I tie my cfagent to init, as a direct child. 
> 
> Russell
> 
> On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 04:43:18PM +0100, Spindler Michael wrote:
> > Hi Arkadi,
> > 
> > > I have a question regarding monitoring the cfagent process. 
> > > Currently I monitor the cfservd process but there is still a 
> > > chance that cfagent does not work because of for example a 
> > > key problem. This will not be seen when monitoring the 
> > > cfservd process.
> > > Is there a default way to check this?
> > > 
> > 
> > at our site, every cfagent run touches the file
> > /var/log/cfengine.monitoring. Our monitoring software checks the mtime of
> > this file and if it wasn?t modified for a certain time, we generate an alarm
> > for this server.
> > 
> > Best regards,
> > Michael
> 
> 
> 
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