On Wed, 3 Sep 2003 10:47:22 -0700, "Jeremy T. Bouse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 07:00:42PM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > On Wed, 3 Sep 2003 08:22:22 -0700, > > "Jeremy T. Bouse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 04:55:53PM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > > > On Tue, 2 Sep 2003 09:48:40 -0700, > > > > "Jeremy T. Bouse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> top posted in message > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > > > > Nagios itself is necessary... Also I've worked out the > > > > > dependencies so that Nagios can be setup in a distributed > > > > > fashion as documented in the Nagios docs where you only need > > > > > the central server to have a web server installed... It didn't > > > > > make sense to have it "recommend" the plugins but "depend" on > > > > > the web server which meant you couldn't install nagios as a > > > > > probe-only server with no web interface and installing Nagios > > > > > without the plugins doesn't make much sense at all... > > > > > > > > .."a web server" == "an Apache webserver"? There are _several_ > > > > out there, even some lightweight... > > > > > > > > > > Well it's put as "apache | apache-ssl | httpd" which should > > > allow any web server package to be used however the packaging at > > > this time only knows how to try and configure itself to run on > > > apache or apache-ssl... > > > > ..ah, so with boa or monkey webservers I just have to figure out > > config stuff myself. ;-) > > > Well I'm not the official Nagios maintainer I'm just working on > a NMU for it to get the plugins package working since maintainer > hasn't had time to work on it... I also don't run boa or monkey > webservers so I'm the last person you'd want trying to figure out the > config stuff :) ..easiest way is fire it up from http://damnsmalllinux.org/ ;-) > > > By changing debian/control so that it "Suggests" the web server > > > rather than depends on it you could setup a distributed monitoring > > > system with Nagios as listed on the Nagios documentation[1]. Also > > > it made more sense to change the "Depends" to "nagios-plugins | > > > netsaint-plugins (>= 1.2.9.4-7)" rather than as a "Suggests" or > > > "Recommends" as Nagios doesn't make much sense without them... > > > > > > Regards, > > > Jeremy > > > > > > [1]http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/distributed.html > > > > ..thanks, while I got your attention: there _are_ ways to monitor > > ext3 and other journalling fs'es for journalling failures? Had a > > few ext3 go ro on /var and /home and trigging a kernel panic is > > usually overkill, especially on raid-1, I would have expected the > > "journal demon" bail out the "bad disk" and do fsck and restart > > the journal and resync etc, but with Red Hat 7.3-9 and Debian, it's > > "at best" "errors=remount-ro". > > > This could be handled by Nagios in theory... I'm not aware of > any plugin at this time that checks journal status but I'm sure one ..anything else that checks fs journal status? > could be written and with the assistance of a properly written event > handler script auto-correct the solution... In the production systems > I'm runing Nagios in we have some event handlers which restart hung > processes before they cause problems... ..cool, urls? -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-) ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
