Status?

[Michael Townley]

I have considered nagios, but the main purpose for wanting to use monit over
nagios is monit has far superior process monitoring and it's ability to
recognize depandancies and react to issues is great. I can see the two
working together being pretty useful but difficult to set up when you want
to monitor 150 machines.  The long and short of it is that monit needs a
centralized view.

At least for my own purposes, if I have 150 client servers that all have
monit on them, all I need is a list of the hosts in either red or green. The
host names can be links to the actual monit instance on that machine. If
it's red, click the link and get more detail. I think most of us could start
making use of mmonit if it just supplied a go/no-go interface for other
monit instances. why is this taking so long?

sorry to keep whining here but, give the community CVS access to mmonit's
existing code base or release some api docs and feature set ideas and lets
get on this.

Mike

On 5/2/07, frank gleason <frankg at fgleason.com> wrote:
>
>
> Actually I have nagios and I'm trying to get rid of it. monit is very
> good. It does need a few features, the most obvious is a centralized view.
>
> fg
>
>
> On May 2, 2007, at 2:10 AM, Alexis Yushin wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> For what its worth – I do not think monit is not really suitable as a
> monitoring/alerting tool as  such. It is a rather process control tool which
> should be used in conjunction with a proper alerting system such as nagios
> for example.
>
> One can easily add tests in nagios that would be monitoring monit logfiles
> and raising alerts when something goes wrong.
>
> That's how we've solved this and it works fine!
>
> Alexis
>
>
> On 5/1/07 9:11 PM, "Michael Townley" <mike at onshored.com> wrote:
>
> I had a simple idea to write a script to connect to each monit instance
> and just grep fro the hex value of red and then alert you to the url of the
> instance with a red value. Once in to the individual instance of monit, you
> can do whatever is needed. of course the script could easily be ran and
> monitored by monit. could even be a monit script. connect, parse the page
> for hex value for red, if red, alert, if not, move on.
>
> I haven't moved forward on this due to other things on my plate that take
> priority and also due to a thin hope that mmonit will actually be out soon.
>
> I have no idea what feature set to expect from mmonit or even what was
> planned for it. so as far as I am concerned, anything to aggregate the
> status of multiple sites running in one place works for me.
>
> Can we get some status from the developers besides "It will be ready
> soon"? There is no reason for vaporware as long as we a have a group of
> eager users and a feature set. Set up anonymous cvs and svn or something and
> let us grab what you have, however limited, and let the community go with
> it. I fear that inaction from a few could really kill what has potential to
> be a great project.
>
> Mike
>
> On 5/1/07, *Piotrek* <pki at wp.pl> wrote:
>
> My $.01 cent, mmonit would never be released.
>
> :-[
>
>
> 2007/5/1, Michael Townley < mike at onshored.com <mailto:mike at onshored.com><mike at onshored.com>>:
>
> If nothing else, can you just release the code to what you do have? The
> whole point of opensource is so that a community can contribute. Open your
> source and let those of us who are willing to put in the work, do so.
>
> My $.02
>
>
> On 5/1/07, *frank gleason* < frankg at fgleason.com
> <mailto:frankg at fgleason.com> <frankg at fgleason.com> > wrote:
>
>
> Since it' s May I'll ask again. How is mmonit coming along? How about
> a little information, like feature set...
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