starting/stopping apps on remote servers..

[Tedman Eng]

Nagios offers some of the capabilities that you require, but likely is not
suited for what you need.  The monitoring scheduling is internally
controlled by Nagios, with lesser ability to be controlled by external
processes.  It can launch event handlers to react to a certain monitored
status, but the services being monitored need to be fairly static.

You're looking more for a process scheduler/batch scheduler perhaps.

OpenMosix will do some of what you require, completely transparently (load
balancing CPU among many machines, automagic process migration).
ClusterKnoppix is a LiveCD based distro with OpenMosix pre-installed so you
can test drive to see if it would fit the bill.
http://bofh.be/clusterknoppix/clusterinaction.htm



-----Original Message-----
From: bruce [mailto:bedouglas at earthlink.net]
Sent: Friday, October 01, 2004 10:23 AM
To: Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Nagios-users] starting/stopping apps on remote servers..


hi...

i'm researching monitoring apps. i need an app that allows me to monitor
multiple servers within a network (10-100) and allows me to start/stop
processes, monitor the ongoing processes on the various servers within the
network.

i'm envisioning a situation where i have a number of perl apps that need to
be run, and i'd like to be able to round robin them within the network,
assigning them to the server that's next in line to run. i'd then like to be
able to monitor the systems, and the progress of the perl apps as they're
being run.

does nagios have the ability to do this, or do you know of any other app
that might be suitable that i should look at.

thanks

-bruce



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