Monitoring clustered resources with Windows...
Andrew Davis
nccomp at gmail.com
Wed May 20 22:17:04 CEST 2009
Except that we're a 100% Sun and Dell shop (mostly Sun, phasing out
Dell... though I guess I'll be calling "Sun" as "Oracle" soon enough).
But, hence the reticence to install the HP agents...
Thanks for the link all the same. It offers hope that if I can get into
the native Server 2008 SNMP items for the cluster resources, then there
may be a solution.
A. Davis
Email: nccomp at gmail.com
"There is no limit to what a man can accomplish
if he doesn't care who gets the credit." - Ronald Reagan
James Pratt wrote:
> Understood.... It would be worth a shot to ask them anyhow though - IMO,
> as the "HP hardware guy" here, it's a *lot* easier to troubleshoot
> hardware issues with the agents/management pages , even if you don't use
> insight manager/SIM , no matter what OS is on the HP servers - but, this
> is now off-topic, apologies! :(
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Davis [mailto:nccomp at gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 3:34 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Monitoring clustered resources with
> Windows...
>
> Thanks. Unfortunately I doubt our Windows Admin is going to install the
> HP agents on all the systems. I wonder if the MIB's for the cluster
> service in Server 2008 are public and queryable... off to dig around.
>
>
> A. Davis
> Email: nccomp at gmail.com
>
> "There is no limit to what a man can accomplish
> if he doesn't care who gets the credit." - Ronald Reagan
>
>
> James Pratt wrote:
>
> Apologies - that site is really acting strange lately.
>
> I used to use this one, but it requires HP hardware, and since
> we are
> mostly a vmware shop, it's no good to me anymore -
>
>
> http://www.monitoringexchange.org/cgi-bin/page.cgi?g=Detailed%2F1452.htm
> l;d=1
>
> (let me know if that link is broken as well - if so, you can try
> to
> google for check_mscs_hpma instead)
>
> Sorry!
> James
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Davis [mailto:nccomp at gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 2:01 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Monitoring clustered resources with
> Windows...
>
> Were you trying to link to a specific project/plugin ID cause it
> just
> took me to the main nagiosexchange page which I've already
> searched and
> its coming up dry for add-ons that would address my question...
> maybe
> your URL was bad?
>
>
> A. Davis
> Email: nccomp at gmail.com
>
> "There is no limit to what a man can accomplish
> if he doesn't care who gets the credit." - Ronald Reagan
>
>
> James Pratt wrote:
>
> Seems there is a new resource for this since "The
> Fork"...
>
> http://www.monitoringexchange.org/cgi-bin/page.cgi?d=1
>
> hth,
> regards
> Jamie
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Davis [mailto:nccomp at gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 1:19 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Monitoring clustered resources
> with
> Windows...
>
> One of our admins is actively migrating us from Server
> 2003 to
> Server
> 2008 and using the built-in clustering capabilities of
> '08 to
> enable
> service-level failover. So far, he's done so with
> Exchange,
> print server
> services, and SQL. I'm wondering how to best monitor
> shares
> resources on
> Windows hosts from Nagios. At present, we use nsclient++
> to
> watch the
> physical servers. This is good for basic checks of load
> average,
> memory,
> local disk consumption, etc. I can even monitor services
> that
> are
> running. No, I know I can monitor anything that's
> accessible
> from an IP
> and port, but I'm somwhat stumped on other resources...
>
> For example, we have two physical Exchange servers.
> They're in a
> cluster
> and the various Exchange services are only active on one
> node at
> a time.
> I can watch OWA as its accessible from an IP and port,
> but the
> Exchange
> services themselves will stop on one server and start on
> the
> other if a
> server fails. Nagios can't dynamically adjust to watch
> this
> service on
> the new node. It will only yell that's its down on the
> failed
> node.
>
> Clustered file storage is another example. Again, I can
> watch
> the local
> CPU, memory, and local C: drive, etc. But let's say its
> sharing
> a large
> volume as drive F:. I can watch this fine on the primary
> node,
> but if it
> fails over, its no longer accessible from that node as
> its being
> shared
> on the new active node.
>
> I'm curious if any Nagios users are using clustered
> resources on
> the
> Windows side and how you handle service failover of
> services
> that aren't
> necessarily accessible by IP and port...
>
>
>
>
>
>
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