Cascading Services/Service hierarchy
Dan Stromberg
strombrg at dcs.nac.uci.edu
Fri Sep 24 23:34:34 CEST 2004
There's also check_cluster2...
We use check_cluster2 for monitoring a bunch of hosts behind firewalls.
Only problem is, if you have check_cluster2 chain into a lot of
check_by_ssh's, things get a bit too slow.
Someday, I may put some time into parallelizing them, but probably not
any time soon.
On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 10:23, Tedman Eng wrote:
> check_cluster will let you group 2 or more services into one high-level
> service.
> http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/clusters.html
>
> This sounds like what you need
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mohr James [mailto:james.mohr at elaxy.com]
> Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 6:26 AM
> To: Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: AW: [Nagios-users] Cascading Services/Service hierarchy
>
>
> Servus Gerd!
>
> Thanks for that kick in the pants. I missed that because I was not really
> thinking about it in terms of a "dependancy", per se. The biggest issue is
> that in the OpenView model our services are not tied to a host, more or less
> virtual. That is, we have services that are dependant on the services on two
> hosts. If one goes down, then the service is still accessible. Only when
> both of the bottom-level services go down is the service down. This
> top-level service is never checked directly, it's just dependant on the
> other two.
>
> The real problem is reporting/SLAs. We are required to guarantee the
> top-level services, but the lower-level services determine if the top-level
> service is accessible. However, as I said, this is the OpenView model and we
> really need to keep away from trying to figure out how to "port" OpenView to
> Nagios. Instead, we need to look at the services we are providing and how we
> can monitor them with Nagios.
>
> Danke and Greetings from Coburg!
>
> James Mohr
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Gerd Müller [mailto:gmueller at netways.de]
> Gesendet: Freitag, 24. September 2004 14:49
> An: Mohr James
> Cc: Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Betreff: Re: [Nagios-users] Cascading Services/Service hierarchy
>
>
> Hi James,
>
> have a look at "Host and Service Dependencies"
>
> Gerd
>
> Am Fr, den 24.09.2004 schrieb Mohr James um 14:25:
> > Hi All!
> >
> > Is there any way to cascade services? That is, services that contain
> > other services. When a service at the bottom goes down, the status
> > cascades up to upper levels. We are trying to map our HP OpenView
> > system to Nagios and one of the things we came up against is having a
> > service hierarchy. Any help is greatly appreaciated.
> >
> > James Mohr
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> Mit freundlichen Grüßen aus Nürnberg,
>
> Gerd Müller
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Dan Stromberg DCS/NACS/UCI <strombrg at dcs.nac.uci.edu>
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