I was actually looking in Google for something like that earlier
today.   That would work, but still has the issue of tracking the
previous state.  From what I have read about the clustered services
checks, is that it will see if the service is running somewhere, but
will not notify if the service has changed state.  I am running NRPE
on the clustered hosts and using that to check the processes on each
of the hosts.

I am looking at setting up the cluster-snmp stuff, and I will see if
that will provide me with the information I need.  Otherwise, I might
just go with log scraping.

B
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 5:55 PM, eric rosel <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi List,
>
> I've been toying with the idea of writing an init script resource which will 
> send an alert to <type your favorite network/host monitoring system here> 
> everytime it gets called with a "start" or "stop" argument.
>
> Another way is to make it send "alive" messages everytime it's called with 
> "status", and then configure your monitoring app to sound the sirens when it 
> stops getting those messages, or if the source of those messages changes.
>
> One then simply has to include this script resource with a clustered service.
>
> -eric
>
>
> --- On Sat, 2/21/09, Martin Fuerstenau <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> From: Martin Fuerstenau <[email protected]>
>> Subject: Re: [Linux-cluster] Monitoring Failovers
>> To: "linux clustering" <[email protected]>
>> Date: Saturday, February 21, 2009, 12:41 AM
>> It is a little bit hard to do. It is on my todo list too.
>> The problem is
>> to determine the old state. So for example if you switch an
>> ip address
>> and you have a service bound to that address you have
>> nearly no chance
>> to monitor it from the Nagios side.
>>
>> I have tested using the MAC address and arp but this is
>> awesome if you
>> have bonding. Because if the MAC switches it may be the
>> bonding of the
>> cluster or the cluster switched. But hardcoded MAC
>> addresses in the
>> monitor script will not be good idea.
>>
>> Too much trouble in maintenance.
>>
>> If anyone has a good idea I will write the plugin and post
>> it
>> Nagiosexchange.
>>
>> Martin Fuerstenau
>>
>> On Fri, 2009-02-20 at 11:04 -0500, Burton Simonds wrote:
>> > I am in the process of setting up Nagios for system
>> monitoring, and I
>> > would like to have a way to know if a failover has
>> occurred.  If
>> > everything works as it should, there be a minimal
>> impact on the
>> > services.  Right now it looks like my best bet is
>> basically scrape the
>> > logs and look for the failover messages there and
>> trigger an alarm.
>> >
>> > I was wondering if anyone else has done anything.  I
>> found in an
>> > archive a check_rhcs script that I am going to employ
>> (which looks
>> > pretty cool), but that just looks at the status of the
>> services.  I
>> > want to either compare the current status to the
>> previous status or
>> > have something monitoring the cluster an pushes the
>> alert to Nagios.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > B
>
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