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 > > "Openness is the foundation and preservative of friendship... Let me claim > from you at all times your undisguised opinions." - William Wilberforce > _______________________________________________ > Assimilation mailing list - Discovery-Driven Monitoring > [email protected] > http://lists.community.tummy.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/assimilation > http://assimmon.org/ _______________________________________________ Assimilation mailing list - Discovery-Driven Monitoring [email protected] http://lists.community.tummy.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/assimilation http://assimmon.org/
