<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="MS Exchange Server version 6.0.6487.1"> <TITLE>Kudos for Nagios</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY>  <P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Century Gothic">Just thought I</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Century Gothic">’</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Century Gothic">d send out some Kudos for Nagios. This morning I received an alert that 2 of my web servers were down. Both of these servers are behind a Content Switch that performs load balancing to the web servers</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Century Gothic">. When I pinged the servers, they both returned 0% packet loss from the Content Switch, but the servers were unreachable. Trace</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Century Gothic">route</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Century Gothic"> died at the Co</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Century Gothic">ntent Switch. Sprint</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Century Gothic">’</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Century Gothic">s Enterprise Solutions group (IT) is using a package called Telenium that they spent a</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Century Gothic">$#%& load of money on. It didn</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Century Gothic">’</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Century Gothic">t pick up the problem. It was fooled by the 0% packet loss that the Content Switch returned.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P> <P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Century Gothic">Great job done by Nagios!!!</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P> <P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><A NAME=""><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Century Gothic">Stanley G. Martin</FONT></SPAN></A></P> <P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Century Gothic">System Administrator</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><BR> </SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Century Gothic">Sprint</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Century Gothic">–</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Century Gothic">EAS Business Intelligence</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><BR> </SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Century Gothic">Stanley.G.Martin@mail.sprint.com</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P> <P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P> </BODY> </HTML>