Hi, folks,

Apologies for the delay in responding - I've been overwhelmed with  
client work.   I'm catching up now from the Lulu Carpenter Cafe in  
sunny Santa Cruz, California.   There are worse ways to spend  
lunchtime than by watching the surfers catch waves on Monterey Bay.



On 18 Apr 07, at 08:23, Justin S. Leitgeb wrote:

> [...]

> Graham, how do you propose that we configure this nagios instance  
> in your
> datacenter?  Would you want us to email you nagios configuration  
> files, or
> would we be able to access the machine, perhaps using a non-root  
> account
> that has permissions to restart nagios and permissions to write to a
> nagios file describing the HCoop servers and notification levels?  
> [...]


I'd give the appropriate Hcoop folks sufficient access via sudo to  
configure a shared Nagios instance as you see fit.  I trust you not  
to screw up my config, and to fix it if you do screw it up.  :)

I'll need the SSH public keys for anyone who wants access.


> Also, I think that backup DNS off-site is something that we should
> implement as soon as possible.   It seems that this should be  
> relatively
> easy to implement using domtool, but perhaps Adam should comment  
> further
> about what would be required in order to make your bind instance  
> respond
> as a slave server for our zones by default.  I also recognize if he  
> wants
> to wait on this until the migration starts. ;)


You may want to just start by providing slave service for the  
Hcoop.net domain, and then implement something for the rest of the  
domains at a later date when more human time is available to sort  
that out.


> Finally, is there anything that we can help you out with, e.g.,  
> backup MX
> services or DNS?  It seems that we might be able to have a mutually
> beneficial relationship here in order to strengthen both of our  
> services.
> I assume that the board would have to approve this, and perhaps  
> write up
> some sort of formal agreement, but I can't see many objections to  
> doing
> this sort of thing, and a lot of benefits in terms of increased  
> service
> reliability.


At some point it'd be nice to have DNS in New York as well as San  
Francisco and London, but in the meantime just helping me make sure  
Nagios runs well would be more than enough repayment.

thanks,

Graham


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