Monitoring clustered resources with Windows...

[James Pratt]

Understood.... It would be worth a shot to ask them anyhow though - IMO,
as the "HP hardware guy" here, it's a *lot* easier to troubleshoot
hardware issues with the agents/management pages , even if you don't use
insight manager/SIM , no matter what OS is on the HP servers - but, this
is now off-topic, apologies! :( 

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Davis [mailto:nccomp at gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 3:34 PM
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Monitoring clustered resources with
Windows...

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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