Hi!

I asked for different freshness settings before on this list. So let me
rephrase that:

Here, we switched from (pure) Nagios to an Opsview Monitoring Cluster.
With Nagios it is very easy to configure different freshness_thresholds.
I consider this a very powerful option, useful for any kind of batch or
time triggered jobs.

Yet I haven't seen how Opsview gives me similar possibilities. Also I
can't see how SNMP traps provide a similar functionality. Yeah, I could
write log files and then check if the logfile is recent ... But as
Nagios got the functionality why don't let Nagios do it?

Ergo: It looks like a trivial change to Opsview:
  -- manage two more config lines per service:
        - 'check_freshness'
        - 'freshness_threshold'
  -- add a checkbox and a input field to the GUI
So why not add it? (This is a feature request)

And maybe I can get it sponsored. But I need to know how to sponsor. So
please let me know hot to join the party.

-- 
lg 

On Di, 2009-11-03 at 21:56 +0100, Frederic Jacquet wrote:
> Sounds also like a custom snmp trap use case otherwise ;) 
> 
> On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 19:35, SCHÖGLER Philip
> <philip.schoeg...@svc.co.at> wrote:
>         Hi Fred,
>         
>          
>         
>         thanks for the hint, but to check the timestamp of a logfile I
>         would have to create one and even if CRON is running doesn’t
>         guarantee that a job was executed successfully.
>         
>          
>         
>         So far we added little wrappers in CRON which are responsible
>         for the error handling and in case everything was executed
>         successfully we send the result with NSCA, if no new result is
>         sent the check will change into CRITICAL.
>         
>          
>         
>         Thanks
>         
>         Best regards
>         
>         Philip
>         
>          
>         
>         Von:opsview-users-boun...@lists.opsview.org
>         [mailto:opsview-users-boun...@lists.opsview.org] Im Auftrag
>         von Frederic Jacquet
>         Gesendet: Dienstag, 3. November 2009 19:16
>         
>         
>         
>         An: Opsview Users
>         Betreff: Re: [opsview-users] set freshness
>         
>          
>         
>         Hi Philip,
>         
>         Here we check the date of modification of the log file for a
>         similar purpose.
>         It is easy to do with perl.
>         
>         Another way is to check if crond is running : it is its
>         reponsability to take care of correct scheduling. Opsview can
>         check process + restart if needed thanks to action handlers
>         
>         regards
>         fred
>          
>         
>         On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 18:46, SCHÖGLER Philip
>         <philip.schoeg...@svc.co.at> wrote:
>         
>         Hello Ton,
>         
>          
>         
>         We are monitoring different CRON jobs - a system backup for
>         example will be triggered only once per week another job must
>         be execute every 60 minutes for example, so it would be nice
>         to set different freshness values to change into a critical
>         state.
>         
>          
>         
>         Best regards
>         
>         Philip
>         
>          
>         
>         Von: opsview-users-boun...@lists.opsview.org
>         [mailto:opsview-users-boun...@lists.opsview.org] Im Auftrag
>         von Ton Voon
>         Gesendet: Dienstag, 3. November 2009 18:09
>         An: Opsview Users
>         Betreff: Re: [opsview-users] set freshness
>         
>         
>          
>         
>         Hi Philip,
>         
>          
>         
>         On 3 Nov 2009, at 09:46, SCHÖGLER Philip wrote:
>         
>         
>          
>         
>         I'm just wondering if there is a possibility to set different
>         freshness
>         values for several checks?
>         As there is no option in the web frontend I suppose not - is
>         there
>         probably something planed for the future?
>         
>         
>         No, this is not planned for the immediate future.
>         
>         
>          
>         
>         
>         What is it you are trying to do?
>         
>         
>          
>         
>         
>         Ton
>         
>         
>          
>         
>         
>         
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