Reporting for redundant hosts

[Andreas Ericsson]

On 05/20/2010 06:28 PM, Stephan Tesch wrote:
> Am 20.05.2010 11:32, schrieb Assaf Flatto:
> 
> Hello Assaf,
> 
>> One approach is to monitor a VIP for the service (i.e. the "clustered"
>> ip of the external facing IP address of the routers) for  finding if the
>> service is up , and the individual devices by their direct IP  for each
>> device  activity .
>>
>> This will give you both the business view ( if the VIP is down then the
>> business is impacted) , and the operational view ( one device impacted ).
>>
> This is for sure a good idea. On the other hand this would mean that we
> have to monitor another "host" and also plan for downtimes of this host,
> too. An approach where I just define the redundant hosts and get the
> report that I need would in my opinion be the better one. The data is
> all there, it just has to be evaluated. I really can't believe, that I'm
> the only one with this problem?
> 

You're not. Ninja has cluster-mode capabilities in its reporting tool.
Check it out if you're interested. Adding such a feature to the cgi's
would be more hassle than it's worth, and I sure as hell won't get the
time for it from work since we already have it in our own reporting
solution.

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