perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Roderick Mooi <>]

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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