[Discuss] Monitoring your AWS instances

2014-09-28 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
I would really like to hear from anybody else who has AWS machines, and alerting/monitoring of those systems (by a system other than Amazon's own monitoring system). The number of alerts I'm receiving about systems being unreachable and then becoming reachable again is ... Crazy to say the

Re: [Discuss] Monitoring your AWS instances

2014-09-28 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 01:56:07PM +, Edward Ned Harvey (blu) wrote: I would really like to hear from anybody else who has AWS machines, and alerting/monitoring of those systems (by a system other than Amazon's own monitoring system). The number of alerts I'm receiving about systems

Re: [Discuss] Monitoring your AWS instances

2014-09-28 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
None of our systems are scheduled for reboot, *and* the machines triggering our alerts have not been rebooting - they just become unavailable on the network for a few minutes and then reappear, without any sort of crash or reboot or anything affecting uptime. *And* this has been a general

Re: [Discuss] Monitoring your AWS instances

2014-09-28 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Chuck Anderson Maybe this? https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/ec2-maintenance-update/ I am aware of that - but they say less than 10% of their systems will be affected, and

Re: [Discuss] Monitoring your AWS instances

2014-09-28 Thread Matt Shields
Did you get an email telling you about reboots begin scheduled? I know I have a number of systems being rebooted today around 2pm. If you log into the console, and go to EC2 then click on Events on the left side it will show you any ones that are scheduled in the future. If you change one of

Re: [Discuss] Monitoring your AWS instances

2014-09-28 Thread Jason Normand
We use Nagios and nrpe with a pretty standard monitoring setup. We also pull in cloudwatch data via python goto scripts. As for the uptick I would avoid making any changes until after the AWS maintenance. We have also noticed an uptick in alerts,though not to that level. However just because

[Discuss] selinux nightmare

2014-09-28 Thread Stephen Adler
Hi all, So I'm brining up apache on my new server and I'm trying to do right by selinux this time. My default mode is to ignore selinux, put it in permissive mode, and watch all the error messages get logged but pretty much ignore what's going on under the selinux hood. Well, I figure this

Re: [Discuss] selinux nightmare

2014-09-28 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 04:25:06PM -0400, Stephen Adler wrote: P.S. this is the kind of stuff I'm confronting [root@mipdata0 ~]# sealert -l dd884c85-199f-49c5-b44c-a595ce3cec43 SELinux is preventing /usr/bin/python2.7 from read access on the lnk_file . First, I recommend reading Dan

Re: [Discuss] selinux nightmare

2014-09-28 Thread Bill Ricker
Chuck is spot on. Dan is the center of wisdom, and other advise looked good. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [Discuss] selinux nightmare

2014-09-28 Thread Stephen Adler
On 09/28/2014 06:55 PM, Chuck Anderson wrote: On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 04:25:06PM -0400, Stephen Adler wrote: P.S. this is the kind of stuff I'm confronting [root@mipdata0 ~]# sealert -l dd884c85-199f-49c5-b44c-a595ce3cec43 SELinux is preventing /usr/bin/python2.7 from read access on the