Hugo van der Kooij wrote: > Lars Stavholm wrote: >> Edwin Zoeller wrote: >>> We are monitoring ~75 Sun Servers via Nagios. What information >>> would you like to know. >> >> Top down... >> 1. method used (nsca, nrpe, snmp) and why? >> 2. what specific checks are you using? > > Servers in themselves are useless pieces of junk. What you care about > are the services they provide. So that is what you need to monitor. If > you think about it that way you can choose whatever method allows you > to monitor these services reliably.
I'd suggest that you do also need to monitor the servers themselves. While they may just be useless pieces of junk on their own, you do still need them to run your services. Strictly monitoring the services they provide will give you a good up/down view of things but you probably want to know when things are starting to go sideways so you can take corrective action before you actually reach a down state. I don't work with Sun hardware, but I'm sure Sun provides some kind of framework for monitoring some of the physical components of the system, and I'd bet dollars to doughnuts there are Nagios plugins that can take advantage of that framework Temperature, fans, HD/RAID status, power supply status, etc. etc. are a very good thing to keep an eye on if you intend to catch problems early enough to resolve before actually causing downtime. Andrew ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
