[op5-users] Merlin? What is it?

[Andriy Skuratov]

Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> Most certainly not. Centrally scheduled checks are ofcourse vitally
> important to check network services, but to execute local checks such
> as CPU load, disk usage, mem usage, running processes and whatnot it
> would help a lot if the various systems themselves could take care of
> doing that.
>   
It sounds very much the way it is done here on N-iX. We use nagios for 
centralized availability checks + servers have tool called `monit` 
installed that is gathering all that info (CPU load, disk usage, mem 
usage, running processes). Monit also boasts features like `if apache is 
down start it again` etc see http://mmonit.com/monit/. The only thing is 
that admins have to implement some kind of basic centralized info 
gathering for it themselves.

So it can be a good idea to make monit able to communicate to merlin 
instead of implementing local checks in merlin. Then we can have info 
from nagios and different monits in one ninja GUI. Or smth like that.

-- 
Andriy Skuratov
Senior software engineer,
Project lead
N-iX LLC
Solutions for Your success
http://www.n-ix.com
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