[collectd] Monitoring collectd

[Israel Garcia]

On 10/14/09, Andrés J. Díaz <ajdiaz at connectical.com> wrote:
> Hi Israel
>
>> I'm looking for a way to monitor, in collectd server, data coming from
>> multiples servers and make me some kind of alert when some server
>> stops sending UDP packages to collectd. How do you know if some server
>> stops sending  data to collectd server?
>
> You can define a threshold to do this, if you only need a "online"
> threshold, that is
> only send an alert when host down, you can use a dummy threshold like this:
>
> <Threshold>
>   <Plugin "load">
>      WarningMin 0 # dummy threshold
>   </Plugin>
> </Threshold>
>
> So, the threshold never raises, because load never will be lower than 0,
> but when NaN, a FAILURE alert will be dispatched.
Hi Andres,
That's a good idea, thanks for your answer.

Sometimes I have servers with load = 0, l'd like to ask you if
WarningMin 0 means = 0 or < 0?
Why dont you use other plugin like Memory RAM?

regards,

Israel.
>
> You can combine this with notify_email plugin to send emails.
>
> Regards,
>   Andrés
>


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Regards;
Israel Garcia