On Fri, November 22, 2013 3:35 pm, Scott Post wrote:
I am thinking about installing Xymon on a Linux Cluster and just wondering:
Is this possible?
If so, it is possible to spread the network tests across the nodes?
It's quite possible (xymonnet can be running in an install anywhere you like), but you'll need to do some configuration to decide how to split responsibilities yourself.
xymond doesn't have a central "scheduler" like some other monitoring systems do, so there's nothing to dole out a network test to do somewhere else automatically. However if you're not otherwise using the functionality, the XYMONNETWORK setting in xymonserver.cfg (man xymonserver.cfg and man xymonnet) could be used to allocate hosts at hosts.cfg-file-generation time among particular cluster node boxes.
Barring that, if you have a truly prodigious number of hosts, I'd consider separate hosts.cfg files (or a separate file fed directly into xymonnet) generated live for each host dynamically.
HTH,
-jc