Monitoring clustered resources with Windows...

[Andrew Davis]

Thanks. Unfortunately I doubt our Windows Admin is going to install the 
HP agents on all the systems. I wonder if the MIB's for the cluster 
service in Server 2008 are public and queryable... off to dig around.

  A. Davis
  Email:     nccomp at gmail.com

  "There is no limit to what a man can accomplish
   if he doesn't care who gets the credit." - Ronald Reagan



James Pratt wrote:
> Apologies - that site is really acting strange lately.
>
> I used to use this one, but it requires HP hardware, and since we are
> mostly a vmware shop, it's no good to me anymore - 
>
> http://www.monitoringexchange.org/cgi-bin/page.cgi?g=Detailed%2F1452.htm
> l;d=1
>
> (let me know if that link is broken as well - if so, you can try to
> google for check_mscs_hpma instead)
>
> Sorry!
> James
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Davis [mailto:nccomp at gmail.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 2:01 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Monitoring clustered resources with
> Windows...
>
> 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
>
>   "There is no limit to what a man can accomplish
>    if he doesn't care who gets the credit." - Ronald Reagan
>
>
> 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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