Using Monitoring & Configuration Management to restart services.

by gregretkowski on Nov 20, 2011

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These are the slides from a talk I gave to the Large Scale Production Engineering group in November 2011. The talk is on how to tie Nagios and Puppet together so that puppet can rectify problems detect...

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Using Monitoring & Configuration Management to restart services. — Presentation Transcript

Combining Monitoring and CM to restart services. Greg Retkowski Operations Engineer, OnLive

Whats in it for me?● Itll free you up from firefighting● Itll react faster than a human can● Its a hedge against technical debt

Required Tools● NAGIOS● Puppet

High Level Diagram

Our Puppet Apache Class

Nagios service.cfg

Nagios commands.cfg

Puppet auth.conf● Create an empty namespaceauth.conf● Add this to your auth.conf:

Puppet puppet.conf

Testing the puppet agent● puppetd –listen –verbose –no-daemonize –no- client –fqdn `hostname`

Invoking puppetrun● puppetrun -a –host FQDN

The handle_puppetrun.sh script

Bringing it all together

Resourceshttp://www.rage.net/lspe

Using Monitoring & Configuration Management to restart services.

by gregretkowski on Nov 20, 2011

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Using Monitoring & Configuration Management to restart services. — Presentation Transcript