On 10/14/09, Andrés J. Díaz <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Israel > >> I'm looking for a way to monitor, in collectd server, data coming from >> multiples servers and make me some kind of alert when some server >> stops sending UDP packages to collectd. How do you know if some server >> stops sending data to collectd server? > > You can define a threshold to do this, if you only need a "online" > threshold, that is > only send an alert when host down, you can use a dummy threshold like this: > > <Threshold> > <Plugin "load"> > WarningMin 0 # dummy threshold > </Plugin> > </Threshold> > > So, the threshold never raises, because load never will be lower than 0, > but when NaN, a FAILURE alert will be dispatched. Hi Andres, That's a good idea, thanks for your answer.
Sometimes I have servers with load = 0, l'd like to ask you if WarningMin 0 means = 0 or < 0? Why dont you use other plugin like Memory RAM? regards, Israel. > > You can combine this with notify_email plugin to send emails. > > Regards, > Andrés > -- Regards; Israel Garcia _______________________________________________ collectd mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.verplant.org/listinfo/collectd
