Everything works! But I want more!
Ben Hyde
bhyde at pobox.com
Tue Nov 23 21:57:56 CET 2004
Nagios is wonderful. I had very little trouble setting it up and it's
humming away; bringing my attention to all kinds of trivial problems
(like links with dropping packets). Big sister and her false
negatives is history.
I was particularly impressed by the status map. The drawing it
spontaneously created from my hierarchy of parent/child relationships -
sweet.
So of course now I want to do more; so I break everything and can go
back to hacking stuff together rather than fixing all those trivial
things (like disks filling up) it keeps noticing.
I have some devices (and some entire networks/providers) that I haven't
puzzled out ways to monitor or represent.
For example I have a modem i can't seem to monitor explicitly; so I
made a host for it and put it parent/child topology. But it hasn't got
any services so it always reports as "pending." What do people do
about that? I could make a fake service that reports that all is
fine; but that isn't really the case.
The second example is cases where I have a provider or network as an
intermediary. In a sense this is just like my modem. I'd like to
render them as a cloud with no particular status; is there a standard
way people do that?
If I was really going wild then I would have some scheme that
heuristically pushes the status of these devices around based on the
status of all the adjacent components.
- ben
did I mention that nagios is wonderful?
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