Nagios iControl plugin....

We kind of shyed away from doing somthing like this. What we do is have Nagios hit each site through the VIP and send out alerts for each site.

 

 

Though what mite be nice is a go with the basic idea then before passing the output to nagios scan for the sites that are down and only pass those site as the output to nagios. That way is should be easy to see what is up and what is down.

 

 

Also if you do a little regex and only pass back the pool name it will clean it up. Though it all depends on the people that are getting the alerts.

 

 

For us it goes to our NOC and we use Nagios to pass alerts to HP oven view. The Nagios alerts have also been change to only pass the url of the site, since this is what the operators use to look up information on the application. But if you are the one getting the alerts then the format should be what you want. Though for wide use it mite be nice to do a reverse lookup on the IP address and return a Hostname as eather up or down, that should not add too much more over head if you only do it for nodes that are down.

 

 

You could also add a little switch to alerts is all nodes are down not just one. That way you do not get alerts for load balance sites that are not totaly down. Just my two cents.

 

 

As you were saying Joe, I think there could be a part of dev central for Monitor these guys, for most of us if these things go down there goes the network. I know you guys have MOM plugins, but it would be nice to have a place to upload monitoring scripts for other tools that some of us use.

 

 

Thanks