> On Jan 18, 2018, at 4:34 PM, Lachlan Musicman <data...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 19 January 2018 at 07:29, Ryan Novosielski <novos...@rutgers.edu> wrote: > Hi all, > > Looked back at the mailing list to see if there was a question about this > already. There was some mention of /using/ Nagios, but no real mention of > specifics. What do people monitor with Nagios? We monitor, so far, slurmctld, > slurmdbd, and MySQL, but there are probably some others. Might be helpful to > run “scontrol ping” for example, or similar, on our login nodes. > > Does anyone have any plugins they’ve written or ideas they can share? Nagios > Exchange doesn’t have anything with SLURM anywhere in the name. > > Thanks! > > > Off the top of my head the only other two that I would want explicitly would > be: > - ntp/chrony and their respective ntpd. Nodes go offline when the timing > slides too far, especially if you are using Munge. > - authentication system - in our case ipa/sssd. Without that, even the > queued jobs will fail. > > We use Zabbix in house. I was under the impression that people were moving > toward icingia2 over Nagios.
I wouldn’t mind moving to Icinga2 over Nagios, but really, it’s more or less a
nicer version of the same thing, so I’d have the same question with Icinga2.
Thanks for the NTP/Chrony tip though — if I get only that from this thread, it
will have been worth it. That’s caused us trouble more than once. We do already
monitor our LDAP, but SSSD is a good idea.
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