perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Roderick Mooi <>]

Sorry, perl scripts (not python)…

> On 30 Jun 2015, at 8:51 AM, Roderick Mooi 
> <>
>  wrote:
> 
> Hi Andy,
> 
> Thanks for the clarification. In terms of a temporary solution - is the 
> Nagios integration using the python scripts the way to go?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Roderick
> 
>> On 29 Jun 2015, at 4:43 PM, Andrew Lake 
>> <>
>>  wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Those will not be in 3.5 unfortunately. They will be in the next version 
>> of MaDDash which is likely Q4 of this year at the soonest. A MaDDash 2.0 
>> planing doc is on the 3.5 page, but in terms of he final timeline it won’t 
>> be out until later this year since it’s release cycle isn’t necessarily 
>> the same as the rest of the toolkit. Also, for future reference, we no 
>> longer use google code, and our wiki is now at 
>> https://github.com/perfsonar/project/wiki.It is one of the most requested 
>> features, we just want to make sure we do it right when we do it. In 
>> particular there is already some effort underway to identify common 
>> patterns in the dashboards and alert on those as opposed to flooding 
>> administrators with alerts. Hope that answers your questions.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Andy
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 10:24 AM, Roderick Mooi 
>> <>
>>  wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Jason, Andy 
>> 
>> We would very much like the ability to have emails sent to us for the 
>> various MaDDash thresholds. Our current plan is doing some kind of Nagios 
>> integration. I’ve found some information on this here: 
>> https://code.google.com/p/perfsonar-ps/wiki/NagiosDevelopment 
>> and 
>> https://github.com/perfsonar/nagios 
>> 
>> While looking around though, I came across the 3.5 roadmap and also 
>> https://code.google.com/p/perfsonar-ps/wiki/LargeScaleDeploymentFeatures#Notifications_/_Alarms
>>  
>> 
>> which is exactly what we’re looking for :) 
>> 
>> So my questions: 
>> While we are eagerly waiting for this (in 3.5 hopefully), should we follow 
>> the first two links and effectively get our Nagios system to generate the 
>> email alerts based on what it reads from our central MA? Is this the best 
>> approach and are there any snags we should know about? 
>> 
>> Thanks very much, 
>> 
>> Roderick 
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