On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 1:51 AM, Jim Avery<j...@jimavery.me.uk> wrote: > 2009/8/27 Terry <td3...@gmail.com>: > >> The other thing we have tried with clusters is to monitor cluster >> services and cluster resources on a specific cluster IP and only >> monitor stock windows services and drives on the actual host. > > > Absolutely this is what I do. I monitor the clustered services > associated with a 'host' on the clustered IP address. This clustered > 'host' has the actual servers as its parents. > > I only use the check_cluster plugin for clusters of the kind where all > nodes in the cluster are live at the same time, for example a Citrix > farm where I only want to be bothered out of hours if more than a > couple of nodes are down at a time. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
That sounds good too. I think both options are good. The other thing to consider is determining when a failover event has occurred. I imagine this can be done with eventlog monitoring but any other tricks out there? None of this is too hard, just want some alternative ideas. Thanks all! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null