Posts tagged 'icinga'

Dan

My journey into the SaltMine to keep nagios fed with check_mk.

Periodically mine check_mk_agent output on minions and use it for icinga/nagios checks.

Dan

Reasons I love check_mk: psperf

After rolling out openvpn across our infrastructure I need to know how it is behaving, if I can trust it for production workflows, logging, etc.

Simple:

inventory_processes_perf += [
    ( ['!ping'], ALL_HOSTS, "openvpn", "/usr/sbin/openvpn", GRAB_USER, 1, 1, 1, 1),
]

That one line of configuration appended to inventory_process_perf[] gives us:

  • Automatic inventory …

Dan

Noticing what didn't happen with syslog, icinga, and logstash.

Our tools are pretty good at logging everything they do. None of them log anything when they croak.