Nagios Strategies

[Brian Loe]

One of the things Tivoli had promised to provide our company was
end-to-end insight of our Java applications. It doesn't work. Any
product that does this is going to be difficult to create, implement
or administer. In our case, the easiest method for verifying the
uptime and performance of our applications is to have our developers
build it into the application.

If you only want to know about the interactions between services on
various servers then I would guess you'll need to use those same
communication lines (whether that be a protocol, port, or physical
network) and do some check writing. Obviously simply checking that the
service is up on the individual can only tell you that the service is
running - not that its not communicating or having a communication
problem. I'm not sure how to represent this in Nagios, though.

For my part, I've created a host group for a specific customer. The
members of this group are all the network devices this customer
touches in the process of working with us. Its not visually
represented but it does give me a customer specific availability
report.

On 12/27/06, Todd Mcneill <todd.mcneill at pmigroup.com> wrote:
> I was thinking of something a little more detailed.  For example, say I
> have 3 servers, a web server (A), an application server (B), and a
> database server (C).  Each of these servers support 3 applications, each
> of which has a component on each of the servers, registered in Nagios as
> a service.  Each of these components for an application is
> interdependent, so if the database component for application 3 is having
> issues, it would be nice to see this visually represented in an
> application view.
>

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