Continue with my previous post - Build Foreman as Puppet ENC. Now it's the time to integrate the Puppet to Foreman. On the foreman server (foreman.mylab.local): 1) Add the puppet smart proxy 2) Import the environments via the smart proxy On puppet master (puppet.mylab.local): 1) Create the two executable ruby scripts to push/pull facts to/from foreman: … Continue reading Integrate Puppet to Foreman
Category: Monitoring
Monitor IBM BladeCenter system status in Xymon
Similar to the IBM StorWize V7000 SAN Xymon monitoring script, I wrote another script to monitor the IBM BladeCenter system status. The script can be downloaded from here.
Monitor V7000 active alerts in Xymon
Continue with my previous post on installing the Xymon, you can write your own monitor scripts. I wrote a script named v7000alerts to check whether there are active alerts in my IBM StorWize V7000. 1) Download the script v7000alerts to /home/xymon/server/ext, and run 'chmod a+x v7000alerts' and 'chown xymon:xymon v7000alerts'. 2) Add the following into /home/xymon/server/etc/tasks.cfg … Continue reading Monitor V7000 active alerts in Xymon
Setup Xymon monitor
Xymon is an easy and nice and systems and network monitor tool. It was inspired by the Big Brother system and was called Hobbit. I have set it up in my environment (CentOS 6.5) to monitor some critical web sites and services. Here are my how-to notes: 1) Install Xymon from source code. 2) Change … Continue reading Setup Xymon monitor
svcmon web gui version 1.1
Continue with my previous svcmon web gui post, I added a small feature to allow users to retrieve the history data in the past X days. Now it looks this: The source codes have been updated and can be downloaded from here:
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