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["Christopher Hoth [CAcert.org]" <christopher AT cacert.org>]

Bases in c, php, perl, sh? ;)

Regards,
Christopher

-------- Original Message  --------
Subject: Re: Requirments - monitoring
From: Bas van den Dikkenberg 
<bas AT dikkenberg.net>
To: 
cacert-sysadm AT lists.cacert.org
 
<cacert-sysadm AT lists.cacert.org>
Date: Mon Aug 17 2009 12:21:48 GMT+0200 (CEST)

> I was thinking about an nrpe solution
> 
> 
> Bas
> 
> 
> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: Markus Warg 
> [mailto:markus AT quarkus.de]
>  
> Verzonden: maandag 17 augustus 2009 12:12
> Aan: 
> cacert-sysadm AT lists.cacert.org
> Onderwerp: Re: Requirments - monitoring
> 
> for DB monitoring, you could simply set up shell or perl or php cli
> scripts that perform the checks you want and put them into inetd/xinetd
> config (with IP access list). You don't neet to open up mysql to the net.
> Other solution would be nagios nrpe with local check scripts.
> 
> regards,
> 
> Markus
> 
> 
> Daniel Black schrieb:
>> On Wednesday 05 August 2009 05:45:11 Bas van den Dikkenberg wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I am going to setup the new monitoring system but have acoppel of
> question.
>>> 1.       What system and services do want to monitor?
>> email / lists/ blog / wiki - the port connectivity and functionality like 
>> seeing if port 143 is really IMAP
>>
>> as some of these are database backend access could be opened up to verify
> the 
>> structure and maybe stats based on queries - how many email aliases are
> there, 
>> how many users, how many list subscribers.
>>
>>> 2.       Who needs to be notifed when there is problem? A mailing list?
>> there was a plan to do a DR list of non-cacert emails. Perhaps sending it
> to 
>> there. For the more critical service breakdowns an irc notification -
> freenode 
>> and cacert?
>>> 3.       Access to the webinterface is this public or sysadmin only ?
>> If its status information only I'm pretty happy for this to be public. RSS
> as 
>> a minor thought of distributing notification.
>>