excuse-moi my lack of knowledge but what is NagiosSL ? didn't found on google..
2009/7/1 DAve <dave.l...@pixelhammer.com> > Adam Forsyth wrote: > > I'm monitoring lots of different services on various hosts with > > Nagios. Many of these things are very useful for me to monitor as the > > sys admin, but when alerts occur occur with them, they do not > > represent downtime for our users, they represent problems I should fix > > proactively before they result in user noticeable downtime. For > > example, if Nagios notices a fan failure on one of my Procurve > > switches, I as the admin want to know about the problem, and probably > > want to replace the failing fan during the next scheduled maintenance > > time. The switch is still running just fine, however and there is no > > effect on service to users. Currently when I get such a notification, > > I'd acknowledge the problem, and it would stay in critical state until > > I've fixed the problem. > > > > What I'd like to create is a more end user targeted display of Nagios > > data. It would display OK or Alert status based only on whether the > > particular service is up or down from the user perspective, and > > wouldn't show any of the proactive nice for the sys admin to know > > about details. So in the case of the procurve switch, as long as the > > fan failure hasn't made the entire switch crash (we can still ping it) > > it would remain in an OK state. > > > > The only way I can think of to accomplish this would be to make a > > second installation of nagios. It would be a lot of duplicate > > configuration, but many of the services would be left out. I think > > that would create this second end user display as I'm imagining it, > > but it would come at the expense of having to maintain 2 sets of > > configuration files, and the server would have to do duplicate > > checking of lots of the services and hosts. > > > > Can anyone think of a better way to accomplish this that wouldn't need > > to involve duplication of checks? > > We have installed two of these for clients with Nagios in their > networks. The best way we found, YMMV, was to use NagioSL. We wrote a > flash app to poll NagioSL for devices to display on a pretty > non-threatening map. We then wrote a new alert script that updates the > flash map with any alerts/recoveries. > > It's rough around the edges but it works. > > DAve > > > -- > "Posterity, you will know how much it cost the present generation to > preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it. If you > do not, I shall repent in heaven that ever I took half the pains to > preserve it." John Quincy Adams > > http://appleseedinfo.org > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Nagios-users mailing list > Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net > 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 >
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