779908 - Set up Nagios services for metrics data validations

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(mozilla.org Graveyard :: Server Operations, task)

Description

[Pedro Pinheiro]

Attachment: Nagios plugin for CDV

We need a Nagios service for the Pentaho data validations. The service should test webapp1.scl3.mozilla.com against the attached plugin, and report abnormal statuses to #metrics-alerts on irc.

The command line format for plugin should be something like this:

cdvplugin.py --host webapp1.scl3.mozilla.com --scheme https --user [e-mail] --password toomanysecrets

I guess it should be use credentials used here should be those of the pentaho LDAP account (Daniel, could you give some feedback on this?)

Comment 1

[:Atoll]

Not sure what "webapp1.scl3.mozilla.com" is, but it sounds like this meant to be filed with IT.

Comment 2

[Pedro Pinheiro]

Bah, thanks for bringing that up. Besides being misclassified, I also borked the server's name. It's webapp1.metrics.scl3.mozilla.com

Comment 3

[Justin Dow [:jabba]]

I think instead of using a username/password, we could set the apache config to "Allow from <nagios IP>", but if this isn't apache or otherwise easy to do, we can create a nagios account for LDAP to make this work.

Comment 4

[Pedro Pinheiro]

We discussed this internally. It's a tomcat/spring-based webapp, but only publicly available from apache.

Comment 5

[Pedro Pinheiro]

We discussed this internally. It's a tomcat/spring-based webapp, but only publicly available from apache.

Comment 6

[Pedro Pinheiro]

(I fail at bugzilla, continued from the last comment)

We haven't worked out an easy way to do open up the required url like that.

If you do create a new user, it'll need the StatsDashboard flag set.

Comment 7

[Daniel Einspanjer [:dre] [:deinspanjer]]

We have an old ldap account that was used for testing: [e-mail]  can we just use it?

Comment 8

[Ashish Vijayaram [:ashish]]

(In reply to Daniel Einspanjer :dre [:deinspanjer] from comment #7)
> We have an old ldap account that was used for testing:
> [e-mail]  can we just use it?

That'd work. I'll ping you on IRC for the password once I have the Nagios bits setup.

Comment 9

[Ashish Vijayaram [:ashish]]

The Nagios bits have been setup. Please contact me on IRC to complete the setup.

Comment 10

[Ashish Vijayaram [:ashish]]

This has been setup. Checks have been added on webapp1 and alerts in #metrics-alerts.