Load-Balance pools and Monitoring

[Quanah Gibson-Mount]

--On Wednesday, June 30, 2004 10:07 PM -0500 Demetri Mouratis 
<dmourati at cm.math.uiuc.edu> wrote:

> 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.

There is no hardware load-balancer involved, but I can monitor 
"www.stanford.edu" as a particular service.  Actually, just monitoring 
"www.stanford.edu" should be sufficient, thanks. :)

--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Principal Software Developer
ITSS/Shared Services
Stanford University
GnuPG Public Key: http://www.stanford.edu/~quanah/pgp.html


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