Re: Nagios Integration

[Jan-Henrik Haukeland]

Russell Adams <address@hidden> writes:

> I'm not sure I'd even use a central monitoring app for monit. ;]

If you're using monit on one or maybe two machines I agree. But if you
use monit in a server-farm context with many identical machines, a
central application can help in many ways. 

Consider, via a central application you can push out a new monitrc
file to ever machine when you install a new program. Or if you have a
web-rack with HTTP servers you can push one button to stop, start or
restart all HTTP servers at once and so on. And of course it will also
monitor every machine, with uptime, statistics and suchs. But the main
benefit, because monit does not only report events but *act* on events
is that from one central application you will be able to control and
manage many servers from one screen.


> That being said, all I'd like to do is allow more flexible alerts,
> based on running an artibrary command instead of using just
> email. That one feature alone would be simply awesome.
> 
> This way I could use paging directly like so:
> 
> alert `/usr/bin/snpp -m "Monit: $EVENT for $PROGRAM on $HOST" rladams`
> 
> or I would have the option of using any other program to pass on the
> data as needed. Spawn, exec, launch or whatever the program specified,
> and terminal the child process if it fails to exit in less than 90 seconds.

Actually we have discussed this idea before also, it's not a bad idea
and I'm not sure why we didn't implement it. Anyone remember?

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Jan-Henrik Haukeland