[Puppet Users] How best to monitor puppet?

2011-10-04 Thread Marcus, Allan B
We want to use Nagios to monitor out puppet server so we can be notified if it goes down. We are using Fusion Passenger and Apache on Red Hat. Any suggestion for what and how to monitor? -- Thanks, Allan Marcus 505-667-5666 al...@lanl.gov -- You received this message because you are

Re: [Puppet Users] How best to monitor puppet?

2011-10-04 Thread Sam Roza
I would just use your typical template for a Linux server (or individual services, which is how I tend to manage Nagios), and make sure to add service-specific service checks for puppetd/puppetmaster, Apache and any other important services. I don't think Puppet has any specific needs here...

Re: [Puppet Users] How best to monitor puppet?

2011-10-04 Thread Rob McBroom
On Oct 4, 2011, at 9:47 AM, Marcus, Allan B wrote: Any suggestion for what and how to monitor? We’re not using Nagios, but on the server we just check to see if port 8140 is listening. On the clients, we check that at least one puppetd process is running and we check for errors in the logs

Re: [Puppet Users] How best to monitor puppet?

2011-10-04 Thread Christopher Wood
On Tue, Oct 04, 2011 at 01:47:17PM +, Marcus, Allan B wrote: We want to use Nagios to monitor out puppet server so we can be notified if it goes down. We are using Fusion Passenger and Apache on Red Hat. Any suggestion for what and how to monitor? Not so far using Nagios or anything. I