How to organize a multiple box cluster

[jcesario]

I have 2 boxes. They are setup to share a bunch of HA services.

The DNS is setup as such:
box-1.example.com
box-2.example.com
box-ha.example.com

The HA services only listen on the -ha address which is an IP that is failed back and forth between the boxes when necessarry

I want to be able to monitor both boxes in the cluster for their OS level stuff. I want to have it so that that the HA services are monitored independently of the two boxes. Prefferably under a separate host names box-ha.example.com

How would I do this in zabbix?

[jcesario]

Bump! Still interested in figuring out best practice for this type of setup.

[rue]

I have 2 boxes. They are setup to share a bunch of HA services.

The DNS is setup as such:
box-1.example.com
box-2.example.com
box-ha.example.com

The HA services only listen on the -ha address which is an IP that is failed back and forth between the boxes when necessarry

I want to be able to monitor both boxes in the cluster for their OS level stuff. I want to have it so that that the HA services are monitored independently of the two boxes. Prefferably under a separate host names box-ha.example.com

How would I do this in zabbix?

Well, create 3 hosts?

No, seriously: Create two hosts for the OS-stuff and link them to appropriate templates and create one host for the HA-stuff... .

cheers

Rü

[bbrendon]

Also, linux HA has some scripts that report the status of the cluster. You can pipe those into zabbix as well to know if you're live but in failover mode, etc.