Re: [Devmon] having devmon report some data to multiple hosts

[Charles G. <cha...@or...>]

Hi,

I'm new to the list, I'll introduce myself shortly: I work as a product
integrator/devel/engineer for Orange, a major French
phone/mobile/internet operator. I use hobbit for some years (2000+
hosts) now and devmon for a few months (140+ devices).

Devmon is mainly used for temperature and power consumption tracking at
our data centers. I have the exact same problem as Joshua, but I believe
there should be a standard way to send messages to several hosts from
one template.

I have about 30-40 APC-9320 environmental probes, each of which supports
up to 8 external probes. So with one APC appliance, I can monitor 9
racks (the one with the appliance, and 8 others). Each rack is reported
with its name : rack-A-2, rack-A-3, rack-B-1 and so on... Having temp1
temp2 ... with lots of exceptions and lots of graph definitions into
hobbit is not pratical. Plus I have a script that averages temperature
for each room that now should search each sub-name.

Another scenario forced me to write an ugly shell script: reporting disk
usage for an Isilon NAS cluster, polling all information from the
service IP of the cluster, not from each node.

Well, consider this a feature request, I really believe the relationship
between a "device" and a "service" should blur, merge and be abstracted.

Thanks anyway for that great piece of software !

Regards,

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Charles Goyard - cha...@or... - (+33) 1 45 38 01 31
Orange Business Services - online multimedia  // ingénierie