<div>Hi,</div>
<div> </div>
<div>Why not implement Passive checks.</div>
<div>instead of reporting to seperate Host configs have them report to a single host called CLUSTERED</div>
<div>then have the passive checks report only OK states,</div>
<div>and have the freshness check command report for when both are down.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>Check the Docs on Violtile and passive and they may be able to assist.</div>
<div>(Maybe in conjuntion with an eventhandler)</div>
<div><a href="http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/passivechecks.html">http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/passivechecks.html</a></div>
<div><a href="http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/volatileservices.html">http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/volatileservices.html</a></div>
<div> </div>
<div> </div>
<div>Thre also used to be a plugin called Check_cluster </div>
<div>this polls the results from other checks into a single check (I think)</div>
<div><a href="http://nagiosplugins.org/man/check_cluster">http://nagiosplugins.org/man/check_cluster</a></div>
<div><br>A google search turned up this article on Nagios Community: </div>
<div><a href="http://community.nagios.org/2009/04/25/monitoring-windows-cluster-environments-with-nagios/">http://community.nagios.org/2009/04/25/monitoring-windows-cluster-environments-with-nagios/</a></div>
<div> </div>
<div> </div>
<div>Tony ( Author of NC_Net) </div>
<div>Current verison V4.4 <a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/nc-net/">https://sourceforge.net/projects/nc-net/</a></div>
<div> </div>
<div><br> </div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 4:17 PM, Andrew Davis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nccomp@gmail.com">nccomp@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class="gmail_quote">
<div text="#000099" bgcolor="#ffffff">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...<br>
<br>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.
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<div></div>
<div class="h5"><br><pre cols="72"> A. Davis
Email: <a href="mailto:nccomp@gmail.com" target="_blank">nccomp@gmail.com</a>
"There is no limit to what a man can accomplish
if he doesn't care who gets the credit." - Ronald Reagan
</pre><br><br>James Pratt wrote:
<blockquote type="cite"><pre>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 [<a href="mailto:nccomp@gmail.com" target="_blank">mailto:nccomp@gmail.com</a>]
Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 3:34 PM
To: <a href="mailto:nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net" target="_blank">nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net</a>
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: <a href="mailto:nccomp@gmail.com" target="_blank">nccomp@gmail.com</a>
"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 -
<a href="http://www.monitoringexchange.org/cgi-bin/page.cgi?g=Detailed%2F1452.htm" target="_blank">http://www.monitoringexchange.org/cgi-bin/page.cgi?g=Detailed%2F1452.htm</a>
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 [<a href="mailto:nccomp@gmail.com" target="_blank">mailto:nccomp@gmail.com</a>]
Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 2:01 PM
To: <a href="mailto:nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net" target="_blank">nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net</a>
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: <a href="mailto:nccomp@gmail.com" target="_blank">nccomp@gmail.com</a>
"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"...
<a href="http://www.monitoringexchange.org/cgi-bin/page.cgi?d=1" target="_blank">http://www.monitoringexchange.org/cgi-bin/page.cgi?d=1</a>
hth,
regards
Jamie
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From: Andrew Davis [<a href="mailto:nccomp@gmail.com" target="_blank">mailto:nccomp@gmail.com</a>]
Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 1:19 PM
To: <a href="mailto:nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net" target="_blank">nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net</a>
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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