Forum: CFEngine Help Subject: Re: Nova logging and monitoring features Author: aab1005 Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,23833,23845#msg-23845
Thank you; Excellent references some of which I had actually skimmed previously and some which were new to me. So It would seem that for the commercial version "Nova" there are indeed many more reporting and monitoring features which are aggregated at central hubs. Also, described was a binary "cf-report" with somewhat limited reporting ability as compared to the Mission Portal. However, reading further the standard reports do seem to have many good compliance related reports (i.e. File_change, File_diffs, Hashes, Promises_kept... etc). Additionally, future enhancements to monitoring seem immanent via Constellation. What I have seen so far will cover my immediate needs assuming that cf-report command can be run via a scripted process or perhaps cfengine itself? However, I did find somewhat conflicting remarks within the documentation (and elsewhere) which appear to suggest the cfengine should not be utilized as a monitoring/reporting system. This along with remarks on integration with Zenoss and several write-ups concerning the use of Nagios, would naturally lead one to wonder about future direction. Perhaps, a better version of my initial question would then become: is the current monitoring and reporting features of CF strategic? Or, is it likely they will be dropped as per the mantra that scalability is the products main focus. There is nothing wrong with that focus of course. But I would far prefer being aligned with the companies long term goals, then only to discover later that scaling ability has been impaired by reliance on a depreciated feature. Thanks again, Juan _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
