Monitoring thrift server uptime?

[Phillip B Oldham <ph...@gmail.com>]

Is it possible to monitor a thrift server's uptime using something
like monit[1] or nagios[2]? I understand it would be possible for
servers running over HTTP, but is it possible for standard servers?

[1] mmonit.com/monit/
[2] www.nagios.org/

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Re: Monitoring thrift server uptime?

[John Doe <jd...@yahoo.com>]

On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 4:47 AM, Phillip B Oldham wrote:
>  Is it possible to monitor a thrift server's uptime using something
> like monit[1] or nagios[2]? I understand it would be possible for
> servers running over HTTP, but is it possible for standard servers?
> [1] mmonit.com/monit/
> [2] www.nagios.org/

Nagios Remote Plug-ins Execution daemon (NRPE)
You set it up on target servers and it will do checks for nagios...
For the plugin, if one does not exist yet, copy a simple one and adapt it to your needs.
It is not too complex (apart from nagios complexity).
If you skip all the command line options handling, it is basicaly:
- Return codes: 0 (OK), 1 (WARNING), 2 (Critical), 3 (Unknown)
- Status line: TEXT|'label'=value;[warn];[crit];[min];[max] 'label'=value;[warn];[crit];[min];[max] ...
And to graph, you have the PNP extension...

JD


      

Re: Monitoring thrift server uptime?

[Michael Greene <mi...@gmail.com>]

Yes.  It ends up being more of a Nagios question, but if you implement
something like Ping() as in the fb303 API on your server side, and implement
a Nagios plugin [1] [2] that is a Thrift client you would have your
solution.  If you have more complicated uptime requirements than just
"Pingable" they can be implemented likewise.
Michael

[1] http://nagiosplug.sourceforge.net/developer-guidelines.html
[2]
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/library/au-nagios/?S_TACT=105AGX59&S_CMP=HP&ca=dgr-lnxw16nagioswrite#N10117

On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 4:47 AM, Phillip B Oldham
<ph...@gmail.com>wrote:

> Is it possible to monitor a thrift server's uptime using something
> like monit[1] or nagios[2]? I understand it would be possible for
> servers running over HTTP, but is it possible for standard servers?
>
> [1] mmonit.com/monit/
> [2] www.nagios.org/
>
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> Phillip B Oldham
> phillip.oldham@gmail.com
> +44 (0) 7525 01 09 01
>