Exciting stuff good job!!

-- JC

> On Dec 20, 2013, at 8:06 PM, Alan Robertson <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I just committed the code which actually causes services to be monitored
> when they're discovered.  It's now upstream.
> 
> It creates monitor objects in the database, and then sends the commands
> to the nanoprobes to start monitoring.
> 
>    WOOT WOOT!!
> 
> There are a few more i's to dot and t's to cross, but it seems to work
> as expected.
> 
> How much configuration for this to work on your systems?   
> 
>    ZERO (!)                [I'm easily excited ;-)]
> 
> 
> The code currently knows two different methods to use to monitor a
> service. These things have to be true for the automatic monitoring to
> monitor your services:
>    - There has to be a supported monitoring method installed on the
> machine for us to use
>    - There has to be a template that recognizes which services should
> be monitored with that method
>    - The template has to be able to find all the information it needs
> to configure the monitoring agent from the discovery data.
> 
> There is also a peculiar not-monitoring template which says "when you
> see this service, don't automatically monitor it".  We create a fake
> monitoring node in the database which looks a lot like a real monitoring
> node, but it doesn't do anything, or send any commands to the nanoprobes.
> 
> I only have one service configured that way at the moment.  I configured
> it to ignore "skype -session xxxxx" when it sees that service listening
> on a port.  This "service" only runs when I'm running Skype - so it's
> not appropriate to monitor it.  There may be other examples of things
> that ought to be normally ignored.  The point of having these fake
> monitoring nodes is so that their services don't clutter up the results
> of queries on things like "tell me all the services I'm not
> monitoring".  Things marked ignored in this way will not appear in those
> queries.
> 
> I'm going to push to have a better tested version of this code available
> for your testing before the end of the year.  I'll let you know.
> 
> I will be mostly out of contact the first 12 days or so of 2014 -- I'll
> be speaking at Linux.Conf.Au (LCA).
> 
> 
> -- 
>    Alan Robertson <[email protected]> - @OSSAlanR
> 
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