Re: [webmin-l] Question about the MON monitoring component

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

On 14/Jul/2006 12:28 Tim Carr wrote ..
> Here's a snippet of my mon config (posted below).
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> The man output for the redistribute option is:
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> redistribute alert [arg...]
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>    A service may have one redistribute option, which is a special form
> of an alert definition.
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>    This alert will be called on every service status update, even
> sequential success status
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>    updates.  This can be used to integrate Mon with another monitoring
> system, or to link together
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>    multiple Mon servers via an alert script that generates Mon traps.
> See the "ALERT PROGRAMS"
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>    section above for a list of the parameters mon will pass
> automatically to alert programs.
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> So basically, I'm using the command "redistribute trap.alert
> mainmonitor" to send whatever the 
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> latest status check (via trap.alert) is for each of my services to my
> main monitoring server
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> (with a hostname of mainmonitor).
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> Config file:
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> #
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> # Global Options
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> #
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> alertdir= /opt/mon/alert.d
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> mondir = /opt/mon/mon.d
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> logdir = /var/log/mon
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> historicfile = /var/log/mon/history
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> maxprocs    = 20
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> histlength = 100
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> randstart = 60s
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> #
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> # Downtime logging
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> #
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> dtlogging = yes
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> dtlogfile = /var/log/mon/mondtlog
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> #
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> # define groups of hosts to monitor
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> #
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> hostgroup Store13-1 myip
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> watch Store13-1
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>     service Ping_Myself
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>         interval 1m
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>         monitor fping.monitor
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>         description Can I ping myself?
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>         redistribute trap.alert mainmonitor
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>         period wd {Mon-Sun}
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>            alert trap.alert mainmonitor
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>            upalert trap.alert mainmonitor
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>     service Freespace_Root_80
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>         interval 1m
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>         monitor freespace.monitor /:20%
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>         description Check for at least 20% free space on the root
> partition
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>         redistribute trap.alert mainmonitor
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>         period wd {Mon-Sun}
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>            alert trap.alert mainmonitor
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>            upalert trap.alert mainmonitor
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Thanks for the info - I will update the next Webmin release to
handle this format. In the short term, you can edit the file mon/mon-lib.pl
under the Webmin root directory, and change line 16 to :

                          'failure_interval', 'redistribute' ],

 - Jamie