[slurm-users] Nagios or Other Monitoring Plugins

[Ryan Novosielski]

> On Jan 18, 2018, at 4:34 PM, Lachlan Musicman <datakid at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 19 January 2018 at 07:29, Ryan Novosielski <novosirj at rutgers.edu> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Looked back at the mailing list to see if there was a question about this already. There was some mention of /using/ Nagios, but no real mention of specifics. What do people monitor with Nagios? We monitor, so far, slurmctld, slurmdbd, and MySQL, but there are probably some others. Might be helpful to run “scontrol ping” for example, or similar, on our login nodes.
> 
> Does anyone have any plugins they’ve written or ideas they can share? Nagios Exchange doesn’t have anything with SLURM anywhere in the name.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> 
> Off the top of my head the only other two that I would want explicitly would be:
>  - ntp/chrony and their respective ntpd. Nodes go offline when the timing slides too far, especially if you are using Munge.
>  - authentication system - in our case ipa/sssd. Without that, even the queued jobs will fail.
> 
> We use Zabbix in house. I was under the impression that people were moving toward icingia2 over Nagios.

I wouldn’t mind moving to Icinga2 over Nagios, but really, it’s more or less a nicer version of the same thing, so I’d have the same question with Icinga2.

Thanks for the NTP/Chrony tip though — if I get only that from this thread, it will have been worth it. That’s caused us trouble more than once. We do already monitor our LDAP, but SSSD is a good idea.

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