really thank you very much!
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 12:35 PM, Shanker Balan <[email protected]>wrote: > On 23-Nov-2012, at 7:37 AM, Train Lau <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Jerry > > > > Can u introduce some open source products about the agent-type monitor. > > > > > There are potentially 3 things major systems one could monitor: > > 1) The hypervisor hosts > 2) The VM containers > 3) The resources consumed by the user's OS running inside the VM container > (business layer) > > As a cloud infra admin, I would be responsible for (1) and (2) but not (3). > > As for (3), if you treat what's running inside the VM as just another > Linux OS, there are many monitoring platforms that one can use to track > host metrics. Nagios, Ganglia, Cacti, Collectd are some of the popular ones > that's shipped with Ubuntu LTS. > > Ganglia+Nagios could serve the requirements for (1)+(2) and (3). You could > spin up one monitoring deployment which takes care of the cloud admin's > monitoring needs and another deployment specific to the business layer > needs of the running OS inside the VM. > > Keeping them separate will eventually allow to transition the user's > monitoring requirements as a self service layer which can be easily puppet > automated or templatized during VM creation itself. > > Most of the time, the monitoring deployment plans really depend on the > team structure and ownership. > > Hth > @shankerbalan
