Currently I have a group of web servers that are behind a load balancer. The load balancer has a simple health check which involves it getting a specific URL which just grabs a local file and checks the content for "ok".
On each machine I have a few scripts that check load, availability of the application, another file to see if the server is manually offlined and then write "ok" to the static file if everything looks good and "down" if any aren't correct. However the scripts are a bit messy and unreliable so I was wondering what sort of thing other people use in this sort of situation? Thinking further this is probably a subset of my normal monitoring system which I shouldn't be duplicating (just having different thresholds to different actions). Our current monitoring system is slated for replacement over the next few months. Currently Zabbix is the front-runner (especially since it includes graphing which we are very deficient in), do people know if it's a good fit for this sort of role? -- Simon Lyall | Very Busy | Web: http://www.darkmere.gen.nz/ "To stay awake all night adds a day to your life" - Stilgar | eMT. _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
