Luke Kanies talked about this a while ago and I have not had time to follow up on it. If you have any info about how ganglia works let me know and it should be doable.
M On Sat, 2006-01-07 at 09:12 -0500, Jason Edgecombe wrote: > Hi Mark, > > I would be interested in being able to add arbitrary metrics to cfenv in > a way similar to gmetric for ganglia. > > For example, temperature sensors or monitoring my home-grown web spam > blockers. > > Jason > > Mark Burgess wrote: > > >This is not way off topic for cfengine. Cfenvd performs a certain kind > >of monitoring, and recently the people from SLAC wrote cfetool which is > >supposed to use some of the cfengine in an rrdtool kind of way -- > >although it is so poorly documented that Ihave no idea how it works. > > > >I am hoping to get a student to make a web-based monitor using cfenvd > >soon. > > > >M > > > >On Sat, 2006-01-07 at 10:54 +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: > > > > > >>On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 02:47:47PM -0800, Friendly Tourney wrote: > >> > >> > >>> I am using Cfengine on a bunch of linux boxes, everything is working > >>> great. I can push changes etc , it is wonderful. I am also using the > >>> "freespace" function for tracking diskspace usage on all the linux > >>> machines. > >>> I was wondering if i can leverage cfengine to monitor cpu usage, memory > >>> usage etc. I realise that,it is not designed to be Network MONITORING > >>> Tool. > >>>What is a good approach, do i use mrtg along with cfengine ? Any ideas > >>>from users with large setups ? > >>> Ofcourse , i can use sar, top, vmstat, iostat etc on the linux box and > >>> use the stats from that data via cfengine , but that will involve a lot > >>> of work to make gui's etc. > >>> > >>> > >>The Right Tool For The Job, in this case, is Nagios, either with it's own > >>NRPE-based resource monitoring, or SNMP-based monitoring. The SNMP way is > >>cleaner, but it does require the proper configuration of more different > >>technologies than NRPE/Nagios. > >> > >>(All way off-topic for a cfengine list, though, of course) > >>- Matt > >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
