Monitoring clustered resources with Windows...

[Andrew Davis]

Except that we're a 100% Sun and Dell shop (mostly Sun, phasing out 
Dell... though I guess I'll be calling "Sun" as "Oracle" soon enough). 
But, hence the reticence to install the HP agents...

Thanks for the link all the same. It offers hope that if I can get into 
the native Server 2008 SNMP items for the cluster resources, then there 
may be a solution.

  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:
> 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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