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[sjeap <sjeap AT lavabit.com>]

Although the current "Tier2 monitoring system" lacks a bit in details
(certainly dependent on which type of user would actually use it). So
Falk's suggestion looks like a good supplement to the current system, if
one could integrate it technically without greatest effort.

Regards sjeap

Am 20.05.2012 03:01, schrieb Brian Koontz:
> On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 07:17:42PM +0200, Falk Husemann wrote:
>> there has been alot of talk concerning security, availability and
>> what to do in case of X. I thought it could be useful to get
>> Availability Monitoring going for a better insight into OpenNIC (I'm
>> just a newbie too), before proposing anything.
> 
> You are aware that we have in place a rather extensive and
> comprehensive Tier2 monitoring system, right?  If not, you can find it
> here:
> 
> http://www.opennicproject.org/en/tier2statusmonitor
> 
> I mean, if you want to start your own monitoring setup, feel free.
> But I don't see the sense in duplicating effort that has already been
> put into the current monitoring system.
> 
> Re Nagios from a related post:  Everyone always comes on board with a
> better mousetrap.  On the other hand, we (Jeff, Julian, Alex H. and
> myself) have seen many people come and go from OpenNIC.  We've sort of
> grown weary of people promising X, only to leave because they don't
> really have a vested interest in the project.  So please don't take it
> personally if there isn't an outpouring of encouragement from us to
> implement better mousetraps.
> 
>   --Brian
> 
> -- OpenNIC (the sequel) co-founder and wikimaster IRC: Freenode.net channel 
> #opennic

Am 19.05.2012 22:51, schrieb Falk Husemann:
>> Am 19.05.2012 20:08, schrieb Niels Dettenbach (Syndicat IT&Internet):
>> If someone needs some help setting up nagios i'm open to bring me in
>> and help here too.
> 
> Certainly! Contact me off-list or drop me a query on IRC.

Am 19.05.2012 19:17, schrieb Falk Husemann:
> Hi guys,
> 
> there has been alot of talk concerning security, availability and what to 
> do in case of X. I thought it could be useful to get Availability 
> Monitoring going for a better insight into OpenNIC (I'm just a newbie too), 
> before proposing anything.
> 
> To get a basic insight I configured a Smokeping for us, have a look and 
> provide feedback if you like:
> 
> http://frontline.paketsequenz.de/smokeping/smokeping.cgi
> 
> This is just a rough sketch of what we could do. It could be extended to 
> generate daily,weekly, monthly and yearly availability charts on a nice 
> frontend site. Also it needs some scalability tweaking. Good for us, that 
> all has already been done. Its possible to extend with slave monitoring 
> servers for more accurate average lantencies too.
> 
> The Targets are regenerated based on a script, you can get here:
> http://wiki.opennic.glue/Falks
> 
> Keep in mind, it's all development quality, so feedback is needed.
> 
> From my point of view, we could extend this with a weathermap showing the 
> topology thats generated from here 
> (http://wiki.opennic.glue/OpenNIC_Topology_Graphics), but with fancier 
> icons and the correct edge direction.
> 
> Greets,
> Falk