Gary’s Shared Google Reader ItemsI need to monitor 3ware raid cards using Zenoss. A few google searches didn’t show anyone else doing this directly, so I put a few things together. I’m still new to Zenoss, so this may be a bit hack-ish.
I found a Nagios plugin that was capable of checking the status of a 3ware card. It requires the tw_cli command be installed, [...]
There is some discussion on the SAGE-members list regarding network monitoring solutions. The first post was about Zenoss vs. Nagios. I haven’t been involved in the conversation, I’ve only been lurking.
I have maintained a few Nagios installs, usually configured via fruity. Before my Nagios/Cacti days, I ran a couple of large mon installs.
I’ve been unsuccessful and [...]
I figured it’s about time for another update in my EC2 Uptime Series. The Nagios gui doesn’t let me specify time frames more than “this month”, “past 30 days” etc, so I’ve only done December.So far, 0 downtime. If you add the other graph (which covers November 27 till Dec 4), that’s 22 days of [...]
I’ve been monitoring EC2 with Nagios for about a week now. So far it’s 100% uptime:
Can’t complain about that. It’ll be interesting to see how long it goes without any downtime and if it’s on my side or Amazons.
I’m not so worried about it myself, but I’ve integrated some EC2 monitoring into my Nagios system. I’m going to keep an eye on it for a while. I’d like to see how reliable it is. In the few months that I’ve been running EC2’s, I haven’t had one crash (but the most uptime I’ve [...]
