Load-Balance pools and Monitoring

[Demetri Mouratis]

On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:

> Basically, I want to be paged if any server in the pool is down, but I also
> want it clear that
>
> (a) A server being down doesn't degrade the service
>
> (b) in the statistics area, it would be wonderful to be able to graph the
> availability of the combined service, rather than the service on a single
> machine
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions?

For a, configure a custom check_http plugin to return a maximum state of
WARNING.

For b, Your load balancer has a VIP that listens on port 80 right?  You
monitor the VIP with check_http, then look at the graphs for the VIP.

Easy.
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