Re: Monitoring apache's mod_proxy_balancer

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On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 14:12 -0600, Serge Dubrouski wrote:
> On 6/14/07, Tom Haddon <tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 13:02 -0600, Serge Dubrouski wrote:
> > > I wouldn't rely on balancer_manager for a such monitoring because I've
> > > seen situations when it reported "Ok" status for workers that were
> > > down.
> >
> > Is that a known bug?
> 
> I haven't seen any bugs reported for this in Bugzilla.

I've been able to replicate myself and have reported it as:

http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=42667

It's not quite the same issue but amounts to the same thing - in my case
I can see that the worker says it's been disabled, but I can verify that
traffic is being passed to my application server...

Thanks, Tom

> 
> >
> > >
> > > As alternative method you can use sniffing Apache error_log file for
> > > the messages about disabled workers. You can OSSEC for that for
> > > example.
> >
> > Is there any way of getting the current status (which workers are in and
> > out) reliably, as this would surely rely on a good known state and then
> > playing things forward from there? I've been seeing some messages in the
> > error logs about workers being disabled, but when I test them they are
> > plainly working fine, and there's no message about the workers being
> > brought back into the loop.
> 
> Not that I know about. I monitor all downstream servers that I have
> configured in load balancer and load balancer itself using Nagios. It
> would be good to be able to make sure that Apache uses all those
> downstream  server but I don't a simple way to do that. One way could
> be monitoring for incoming traffic/growing log files on those servers.
> 
> >
> > Thanks, Tom
> >
> > >
> > > On 6/14/07, Tom Haddon <tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > Hi Folks,
> > > >
> > > > We've recently set up mod_proxy_balancer as a replacement for Pound, and
> > > > I'm trying to work out the best way to monitor the load balancer to
> > > > determine which servers are "in the loop" and which servers are "out of
> > > > the loop". I'd ideally like to tie this in to Nagios so that I can get
> > > > alerts if any of my servers gets taken out of the loop.
> > > >
> > > > At the moment I have the balancer-manager admin interface enabled for
> > > > local connections only (i.e. from 127.0.0.1 on my apache server) and
> > > > password protected, and have implemented something like the following
> > > > for my Nagios check:
> > > >
> > > > command[check_beta_lb_1]=/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_http -H localhost
> > > > -u /balancer-manager -a betaload:--password-- -s
> > > > 'http://--dest-ip--:--dest-port--</a></td><td></td><td></td><td>1</td><td>Ok'
> > > >
> > > > This seems like a terrible hack, and I'm wondering if there's a better
> > > > way to do this.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks, Tom
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> > > >
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