On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 12:01:27AM -0400, Jason Dixon wrote:
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> On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 10:07:53PM +0200, Jiri B. wrote:
> > On Tue, 10 Aug 2010 18:05:51 -0400
> > Jason Dixon <jason@dixongroup.net> wrote:
> > 
> > > http://omniti.com/video/noit-oscon-demo
> > 
> > Sorry no flash :)
> > 
> > Some screenshots should be sufficient for this products, interesting is
> > there are no screenshots except that architecture picture.
> 
> Here's a quick one I just grabbed.  We don't actively use Reconnoiter
> these days as much as we do Circonus.
> 
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/78527903@N00/4892326857/
>  
> > Does it have some event console? So an operator can watch it 24x7 and
> > see if something goes wrong and do a repair action?
> 
> It has support for alerting in stratcon (iirc), but no fault detection
> functionality is exposed in Reconnoiter's current web UI.

Well, yes and no. There is the whole esper stuff that indeed is in
there, but is described even by the creator as a bit of black magic ;)
Another thing is that you can use for example curl to periodically query
values of the metrics gathered, and for example feed them to nagios, and
have it react to them changing.

In short - it is an infrastructure to gather metrics from a lot of
places, in various ways. And a web interface that allows you to make
pretty graphs of them. For anything more, there are proper pieces in it,
but you need to figure out yourself how to operate them and write
something that will plug into them.
  
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> > It's nice it can act as snmp trap daemon... A lot of SAN devices have
> > SNMP and Vmware ESXes can make good monitoring via SNMP as well.
> > 
> > In our enterprise environment we have huge operators centers which
> > watch 24x7 Tivoli Enteprise Console (yeah, oooold shite), but what I
> > saw is that one can right client on an event and run an action directly
> > from event console (OK, it is not used at all but nice feature and you
> > exclude possibility to fuck up something just with a similar but bad
> > commmand).
> 
> P.S. Sorry for the slow response, been enjoying my vacation.  :)
> 
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> Jason Dixon
> DixonGroup Consulting
> http://www.dixongroup.net/

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