Where I Want to be

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Where I Want to be.....

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What I'll Settle For.....

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Requirements

Rock solid stability Automated node addition (discovery) Scales horizontally Service dependency models Easy to write plugins Promotes sane workflows Unified front end view Flexible configuration

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Tool Stack

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What????but #monitoringsucks and #ihatenagios

How could you?

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In defense of Nagios

Been around since 1996 Has Service dependencies Easy to write plugins Easy-ish to troubleshoot ROCK SOLID

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Valid attacks on Nagios

No automated discovery It's complicated to setup Text files – really? Front end won't win any beauty contests Development is slow Stats collection is a PITA

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Solutions Use Icinga! Use Puppet to auto configure Stats – leave it to graphite. It's really good at that Big boys and girls learn their tools

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Icinga Fork of Nagios Configurations are compatible More solid architecture ( core, API, Web, IDODB ) Nice front end, nice mobile front end Can use NRPE

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High Level View

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Configure Icinga Servers using Puppet Standard Types

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Things to configure with Standard Types

icinga.cfg (file) => icinga main config file Apache icinga.conf (file) => http access to each server cgiauth.cfg (file) => cgi access cgi.cfg (file) => options, users templates.cfg (file) got lazy => use for basic classes idomod.cfg (template) => template for hostname to DB

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Configure Icinga using Nagios Types

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Puppet Nagios Types

nagios_command nagios_contact nagios_contactgroup nagios_host nagios_hostdependency nagios_hostescalation nagios_hostextinfo

nagios_hostgroup nagios_service nagios_servicedependency nagios_serviceescalation nagios_serviceextinfo nagios_servicegroup nagios_timeperiod

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Configuring Hosts

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Overview

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Detailed Overview

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Store Configs

Store puppet info in a DB Retrieve information from

DB Share info across nodes Use thin_storeconfigs Set up on puppet master

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Exporting Nagios_host Resources

Export = Save to DB Use facter for dynamic data PRO TIP: use ENC PRO TIP: use targets PRO TIP: hostgroups PRO TIP: use tags

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PRO TIP: Use your ENC

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PRO TIP: use targets

Use cfg_dir in icinga.cfg Create a unique file per host

or service Addition and removal are

now super easy Also default dirs are in a

horrible place /etc/nagios

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PRO TIP: hostgroups Add machines to a

hostgroup Add services to a hostgroup New machines inherit all of

the services associated with a hostgroup

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PRO TIP: use tags

Tags allow you to filter resources so that you only realize those resources that you need

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Configuring Services/Commands

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Icinga Services OR 'Stuff I want to monitor' Associate with a hostgroup Use a target

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Icinga Commands

OR 'What actually gets run'

Use Macros to set paths in resource.cfg

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Dependencies

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PRO TIP: Dependencies

Unreliable services Cut down on the number of alerts Tell me what's really wrong Route alerts accordingly

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Nagios_servicedependencies

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NRPE

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NRPE

Runs on client Secured via SSL Has ACLs Runs as nobody Can run commands Useful for other things...

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Configuring NRPE

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NRPE Checks

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Plugins

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exchange.nagios.org

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Writing Plugins

Write in any language Output 1 line to stdout NRPE/Icinga/Nagios all use exit

codes to determine status Run by hand to check

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Workflows

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Watching Monitoring

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Scheduling Downtime

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Filtering

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Alerting

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#monitoringisawesome

REMOVE unreliable checks Just MONITOR – don't bolt on - especially stats TIER your monitoring Use timeperiods for sanity Delegate responses Use dependencies to pin down problems quickly Work smart

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Resources Icinga

http://icinga.org

Puppet

http://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/latest/type.html#nagioscommand

NRPE

http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/addons.html

IRC

##infra-talk, #icinga, #puppet

Contact

christianmague@gmail.com, @maguec, #gaijin (freenode), http://blog.mague.com

Thanks

Yvonne Kong, Michael Catlin, Juan Ortega, Anthony Kong, Puppet Labs, Icinga Team