mirrors monitoring tools

[Sandro Bonazzola]

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.

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> Thanks,
> Nadav.
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