874093 - verbatim1.webapp.scl3.mozilla.com app isn't monitored

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

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

Description

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

It's currently giving 500 and I got no nagios alerts.

Comment 1

[Peter Bengtsson [:peterbe]]

After the `yum update` I noticed that the tracebacks (when hitting https://localize.mozilla.org/) all mention python2.4 so I tried this::

  # mv /usr/bin/python /tmp
  # ln -s /usr/bin/python2.6 /usr/bin/python

In hope that /data/www/localize.mozilla.org/verbatim/django.wsgi would instead get started with python2.6 instead. It did not work. 

I also prepended `#!/usr/bin/env python2.6` to /data/www/localize.mozilla.org/verbatim/django.wsgi but it made no difference. 

Is our only mod_wsgi compiled with python2.4 within and we can't override that?

Comment 2

[Brandon Burton [:solarce]]

The problem was that the upstream update of mod_wsgi from rpmforge is compiled for Python 2.4, because that's the native Python on RHEL5

I had to tell 'yum' to exclude 'mod_wsgi*' from the rpmforge repository so that yum would use the custom mod_wsgi rpm that IT made, which is compiled against Python 2.6

Once that was done I was able to install our mod_wsgi and make things happy.

I've moved these changes into puppet, after some discussion with :jabba on the best way to do it, so that yum won't try to use rpmforge's mod_wsgi in the future, even if you do a 'yum update -y' and Puppet will also enforce mod_wsgi staying on our custom version.

As far as monitoring, :peterbe what URL do you want monitoring?

Comment 3

[Peter Bengtsson [:peterbe]]

(In reply to Brandon Burton [:solarce] from comment #2)

> 
> As far as monitoring, :peterbe what URL do you want monitoring?

https://localize.mozilla.org/

Comment 4

[Brandon Burton [:solarce]]

Now that prod is happy again I am giving this to the SREs for a Nagios check for that URL

Comment 5

[Rick Bryce [:rbryce]]

Added standard https-websites check to localize.mozilla.org w/ a parent host of verbatim-zlb.vips.scl3.mozilla.com

Added https_check_string to ensure "Localizer" appears on https://localize.mozilla.org