Monitoring clustered resources with Windows...

[James Pratt]

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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