Yes, Nagios can even have a tiered response, e-mail for problems it fixes (so you can ignore, but keep track of subtler problems), text for problems it can't fix and require your intervention, etc.. The most important part of configuring a monitoring system like that is to ensure that you build logic to both (as best as possible) correctly identify the problem (network vs. server vs. ...), and to not Nag(ios) you or anyone else too much for small glitches, lest you start ignoring everything and miss the large glitches.
Best, Steve Stephen Mather Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Manager (216) 635-3243 [email protected] clevelandmetroparks.com -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2012 9:30 AM To: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Re: [Geoserver-users] supervising geoserver status We never went to a 'reactive' nagios, but just like you can make nagios send you an email - you can make a event handler do all sorts of crazy: like remote ssh into a host, restart the DB, kill all java, and then start tomcat. Nasty - but its up to you. For more info on what not to do with nagios and events - http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/eventhandlers.html As for monitoring the WFS - if you have geoserver in streaming output mode - dont look for the open tag -> look for the closing tag, just incase it errors mid stream. Terry ________________________________ From: Frank Gasdorf [[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, 27 March 2012 4:57 PM To: Caradoc-Davies, Ben (CESRE, Kensington); geoserver Subject: Re: [Geoserver-users] supervising geoserver status I agree, we use Nagios in our infrastructure as well, but in this context I seems to me that the server is hosted by an external provider and I guess its a bit overkill to install Nagios only for the simple propose to watching and alerting. The script itself has the advantage to restart the server, which Nagios would not have ;) Frank 2012/3/27 Ben Caradoc-Davies <[email protected]> On 27/03/12 14:56, Gabriele Seitz wrote: > is it possible to monitor Geoserver status to detect unexpected shutdown as > soon as possible? For this purpose, is it adequate to just supervise tomcat, > not especially geoserver? Monitoring tomcat is insufficient. We use Nagios: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gis.geoserver.user/30140 Gabriel Roldán suggested I put this in the manual: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gis.geoserver.user/30144 My only excuse is that this is a very general solution, but given that this is the second time I am answering this question, perhaps I should. -- Ben Caradoc-Davies <[email protected]> Software Engineer CSIRO Earth Science and Resource Engineering Australian Resources Research Centre ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure _______________________________________________ Geoserver-users mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected] ge.net> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-users ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure _______________________________________________ Geoserver-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure _______________________________________________ Geoserver-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-users
