<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000099"> 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. <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72"> A. Davis Email: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:nccomp@gmail.com">nccomp@gmail.com</a> "There is no limit to what a man can accomplish if he doesn't care who gets the credit." - Ronald Reagan </pre> James Pratt wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:8147CCE3C4A8764DA9980125EE70E823CBF143@nuexchg.norwich.edu" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">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 [<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:nccomp@gmail.com">mailto:nccomp@gmail.com</a>] Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 3:34 PM To: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net">nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net</a> 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: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:nccomp@gmail.com">nccomp@gmail.com</a> "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 - <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.monitoringexchange.org/cgi-bin/page.cgi?g=Detailed%2F1452.htm">http://www.monitoringexchange.org/cgi-bin/page.cgi?g=Detailed%2F1452.htm</a> 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 [<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:nccomp@gmail.com">mailto:nccomp@gmail.com</a>] Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 2:01 PM To: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net">nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net</a> 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: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:nccomp@gmail.com">nccomp@gmail.com</a> "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"... <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.monitoringexchange.org/cgi-bin/page.cgi?d=1">http://www.monitoringexchange.org/cgi-bin/page.cgi?d=1</a> hth, regards Jamie -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Davis [<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:nccomp@gmail.com">mailto:nccomp@gmail.com</a>] Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 1:19 PM To: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net">nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net</a> 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... </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>