Monitoring the server
Posted: February 15th, 2013, 2:19 am
What are you guys using for monitoring?
I'm using monit, which watches over processes, load, disk usage, etc, and then does what it's supposed to do on its own. If a process dies, monit can restart it. So it does a lot of work so that I don't have to do it. The monit site is http://mmonit.com/, and there is a more detailed installation howto here http://www.ubuntugeek.com/monitoring-ubuntu-services-using-monit.html
Obviously, monit can watch over media center related stuff the same as it can watch over anything else. But since this is a media center forum, here are a couple of my monit recipes that are more media center focused:
deluged.conf:
samba.conf (which is basicly the same as the examples on the monit site):
disks.conf:
Those may not be perfect and could probably be better, but they work well enough for me.
I'm using monit, which watches over processes, load, disk usage, etc, and then does what it's supposed to do on its own. If a process dies, monit can restart it. So it does a lot of work so that I don't have to do it. The monit site is http://mmonit.com/, and there is a more detailed installation howto here http://www.ubuntugeek.com/monitoring-ubuntu-services-using-monit.html
Obviously, monit can watch over media center related stuff the same as it can watch over anything else. But since this is a media center forum, here are a couple of my monit recipes that are more media center focused:
deluged.conf:
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check process deluged with pidfile /var/run/deluged.pid
group noncritical
start program = "/etc/init.d/deluge-daemon start" with timeout 60 seconds
stop program = "/etc/init.d/deluge-daemon stop"
if cpu is greater than 80% and loadavg(1min) is greater than 4 then restart
if not exist then start
if 10 restarts for 10 cycles then alert
samba.conf (which is basicly the same as the examples on the monit site):
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check process samba with pidfile /var/run/samba/smbd.pid
start program = "/etc/init.d/smbd start" with timeout 60 seconds
stop program = "/etc/init.d/smbd stop"
if failed host 192.168.1.2 port 139 type TCP then restart
if 5 restarts within 5 cycles then timeout
disks.conf:
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CHECK FILESYSTEM sda1 with PATH /
if space usage > 90 % then alert
if inode usage > 85 % then exec "/usr/bin/find /tmp -ctime +2h -delete"
if inode usage > 90 % then alert
CHECK FILESYSTEM shadow with PATH /hot/sdb5
if space usage > 90 % then alert
if inode usage > 85 % then exec "/usr/bin/find /hot/sdb5/tmp -ctime +2h -delete"
if inode usage > 90 % then alert
Those may not be perfect and could probably be better, but they work well enough for me.
