RESEND ovirt infra monitoring (fwd)

[Ohad Basan]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "R P Herrold" <herrold at owlriver.com>
> To: "Ohad Basan" <obasan at redhat.com>
> Sent: Monday, October 28, 2013 5:11:42 PM
> Subject: RESEND ovirt infra monitoring (fwd)
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 16:51:14
> From: R P Herrold <herrold at owlriver.com>
> To: Ohad Basan <obasan at redhat.com>
> Subject: ovirt infra monitoring
> 
> Hi
> 
> Doing some research, it appears that the outage of last week is not without
> an
> earlier similar instance ... [1]
> 
> We met in the IRC meeting today, but of course you are a few TZ east of me
> and
> so I assume left for the day
> 
> I looked at 'icinga' and checked my SRPM archive.  I cannot find that it is
> not
> presently in Fedora / EPEL .... I seem to have a nagios solution, probably
> lifted in part from RawHide or EPEL or such, but at Nagios in the 3 series.
> I
> see that there is a nagios 4 version out there in, which may or may not be
> interesting.  Is either the 'correct' choice in terms of Red Hat's
> architectural roadmap for its product, and if so should we be looking at
> that?

we can use any solution that we like
it's a community project.
I found icinga modern and nagios compatible so I chose it.
i didn't install it from rpms
just downloaded the tar.gz and installed

> 
> I am presented with a credential challenge on the existing unit:
>  	http://monitoring.ovirt.org/icinga

send an email to infra at ovirt.org asking for credentials.

> 
> As presently implemented, is this capable of being under SSO / LDAP control ?
> If so, what credential shall I use. Alternatively, please add a RO credential
> for me so I may 'look around'
> 
> I have a long-standing personal policy of packaging everything I use.  It
> looks
> as though a packaging push was attempted at F17, but that it lost momentum.
> [2] Shall we start by packaging icinga and getting it into EPEL, or Fedora?
that won't be necessary.
when I first set up icinga, there were no packages for rhel/fedora
but now it appears that there are
https://www.icinga.org/download/packages/

> 
> The relevant bug for this effort seems in part to be: [3] to which I have
> subscribed
> 
> Thanks
> 
> -- Russ herrold
> 
> [1] http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/infra/2012-March/000258.html
> [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/oVirt
> [3] https://fedorahosted.org/ovirt/ticket/48
>