Monitoring clustered resources with Windows...

[Andrew Davis]

Were you trying to link to a specific project/plugin ID cause it just 
took me to the main nagiosexchange page which I've already searched and 
its coming up dry for add-ons that would address my question... maybe 
your URL was bad?

  A. Davis
  Email:     nccomp at gmail.com

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James Pratt wrote:
> Seems there is a new resource for this since "The Fork"...
>
> http://www.monitoringexchange.org/cgi-bin/page.cgi?d=1
>
> hth,
> regards
> Jamie
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Davis [mailto:nccomp at gmail.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 1:19 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Monitoring clustered resources with Windows...
>
> One of our admins is actively migrating us from Server 2003 to Server
> 2008 and using the built-in clustering capabilities of '08 to enable
> service-level failover. So far, he's done so with Exchange, print server
> services, and SQL. I'm wondering how to best monitor shares resources on
> Windows hosts from Nagios. At present, we use nsclient++ to watch the
> physical servers. This is good for basic checks of load average, memory,
> local disk consumption, etc. I can even monitor services that are
> running. No, I know I can monitor anything that's accessible from an IP
> and port, but I'm somwhat stumped on other resources...
>
> For example, we have two physical Exchange servers. They're in a cluster
> and the various Exchange services are only active on one node at a time.
> I can watch OWA as its accessible from an IP and port, but the Exchange
> services themselves will stop on one server and start on the other if a
> server fails. Nagios can't dynamically adjust to watch this service on
> the new node. It will only yell that's its down on the failed node.
>
> Clustered file storage is another example. Again, I can watch the local
> CPU, memory, and local C: drive, etc. But let's say its sharing a large
> volume as drive F:. I can watch this fine on the primary node, but if it
> fails over, its no longer accessible from that node as its being shared
> on the new active node.
>
> I'm curious if any Nagios users are using clustered resources on the
> Windows side and how you handle service failover of services that aren't
> necessarily accessible by IP and port...
>
>   
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