[Xymon] Xymon on Cluster

[Japheth Cleaver]

On Fri, November 22, 2013 3:35 pm, Scott Post wrote:
> I am thinking about installing Xymon on a Linux Cluster and just
> wondering:
>
> 1) Is this possible?
>
> 2) If so, it is possible to spread the network tests across the nodes?
> _______________________________________________


It's quite possible (xymonnet can be running in an install anywhere you
like), but you'll need to do some configuration to decide how to split
responsibilities yourself.

xymond doesn't have a central "scheduler" like some other monitoring
systems do, so there's nothing to dole out a network test to do somewhere
else automatically. However if you're not otherwise using the
functionality, the XYMONNETWORK setting in xymonserver.cfg (man
xymonserver.cfg and man xymonnet) could be used to allocate hosts at
hosts.cfg-file-generation time among particular cluster node boxes.

Barring that, if you have a truly prodigious number of hosts, I'd consider
separate hosts.cfg files (or a separate file fed directly into xymonnet)
generated live for each host dynamically.


HTH,

-jc