mirrors monitoring tools

[David Caro]

On 10/06, Anton Marchukov wrote:
> As I understand it monitors it by creating files at the mirrored directory
> and checking if it propogates to the mirrors.
> 
> Good way to check but since we wanted to split r/o and r/w parts in the
> future I wonder if it would be possible to separate the writing part from
> the rest of UI so they can be on different VMs?


As far as I understood the mirmon is exactly that, there's a cron that creates
the files, and a perl script that checks the mirrors and generates the status
page

> On 6 Oct 2015 5:41 pm, "Sandro Bonazzola" <sbonazzo at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 5:18 PM, Nadav Goldin <ngoldin at redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >> I've been reviewing 3 solutions suggested for monitoring oVirt's mirror
> >> sites: mirmon(used by CentOS), Debian Mirror Checker, MirrorManager(used by
> >> Fedora). I've put what I gathered so far here(google docs)
> >> <https://docs.google.com/a/redhat.com/document/d/1NErdN07kSLZQ_ystxsp9-6Fwq_6zhZMF8VxKO3w2oys/edit?usp=sharing>
> >> .
> >>
> >> imo, there are 2 main problems:
> >> 1. monitoring that the mirrors are up and synced( logs and http access)
> >> 2. updating the mirrorlist(../yum-repo/mirrorlist) file automatically
> >> when a mirror site is not synced after X amount of time.
> >>
> >> so far installing only mirmon, it seems like the simpler tool that can
> >> address problem 1 easily, in order to handle problem 2 another script that
> >> filters the log file needs to be written.
> >> MirrorManager needs further inspection(has many other features which I am
> >> not sure if we need?)
> >> and Debian Mirror Checker, i think, is not worth it(incomplete docs, not
> >> maintained, debian infra specific - assuming I found the correct repository)
> >>
> >> what do you think?
> >>
> >>
> > I'd like to have mirmon running as a first step. it won't help if rsync
> > fails in the middle but at least it will give us an hint of the health of
> > the mirrors.
> >
> > You can add bouncer to your list: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Bouncer
> >
> >
> >
> >> Thanks,
> >> Nadav.
> >>
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