[racktables-users] Fw: Re: Whether racktables can be configured to check ping
- From: Gopi Here <gopihere@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: racktables-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 09:25:55 +0530 (IST)
Hello All,
I'm a new user of racktables.
I would like to know, whether I can have any addon in the software, to check
the ping status of the servers configured in racktables, such that if any host
goes down, then racktables will send an email.
From the dev team, I could know that, there is some method to import devices
listed in Racktables to Nagios, so that we can get the Ping, Service status.
Does any one have such scripts now, so that I can put it my RT installation.
Your help is really appreciated,Gopihere.
--- On Tue, 22/3/11, Alexey Andriyanov <alan-74@xxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Alexey Andriyanov <alan-74@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Whether racktables can be configured to check ping
To: "Gopi Here" <gopihere@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tuesday, 22 March, 2011, 6:38 PM
- devteam@
The RT software is already overloaded with many different,
non-obvious and insufficiently interconnected features to add a
monitoring stuff into it.
To monitor something you need a daemon or at least a cron job, RT
does not have ones. So you'll actually need to develop a standalone
application fetching data from RT, doing periodical probes and
storing the results in the racktables DB to display in from within
RT web UI.
This work is much harder than to import object list from RT to
Nagios (e.g.), and modify the UIs of RT and Nagios to add HTML links
from one system to another.
There are users who already made some kind of such interconnection,
please ask them to share out in racktables-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Keepalived thing has nothing to do with monitoring - it generates
configs for keepalived software daemon to make network services
load-balancing.
22.03.2011 19:44, Gopi Here wrote:
Hello Alexey,
Thanks a lot for your suggestion. Presently I'm using
Nagios. But after seeing Racktables, I got much interested on
this. From Nagios, I'm not able to get an over view of the
servers placed in each rack. But from Racktables it is
possible. Hence I thought, if some monitoring (ping, HTTP
service) can also be added via Racktables as some plugin, it
would be more useful.
What is this keepalive stuff in Racktables? Do this have
any connection with my objective?
Sorry for this basic doubts. I'm just a beginner in
racktables :-)
Gopihere
From:
Alexey Andriyanov <alan-74@xxxxxxx>
To: Gopi
Here <gopihere@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc:
devteam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tue,
22 March, 2011 3:29:44 PM
Subject:
Re: Whether racktables can be configured to check ping
It is possible, but why not to use the software specially
designed to do this work (Nagios, Zabbix, etc)?
You can write a script to import a list of objects from
RackTables into the monitoring system.
22.03.2011 11:56, Gopi Here wrote:
Hello,
I'm a new user of racktables. I liked this s\w a loot.
Thanks for the developers.
I would like to know, whether I can have any addon in
the software, to check the ping status of the servers
configured in racktables, such that if any host goes
down, then racktables will send an email.
Is it possible?
Thanks,
Gopihere.
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