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Reconnoiter

Large-scale Monitoring and Trend Analysis System

OmniTI Computer Consulting, Inc.

Copyright © 2008 OmniTI Computer Consulting, Inc.

Thu, 16 Oct 2008, Document revision 503

Table of Contents

Introduction

I. Architecture

1. Reconnoiter Architecture Overview

2.1. noitd Design

3. stratcond

3.1. stratcond Design

II. Configuration

4.1. Implicit Inheritance
4.2. Explicit Inheritance
4.3. The <eventer> section
4.4. The <logs> section

5.1. dns
5.2. http
5.3. lua
5.4. smtp
5.5. varnish
5.6. ping_icmp
5.7. postgres
5.8. resmon
5.9. resmon_part
5.10. snmp
5.11. ssh2

III. Reference

I. Reconnoiter Command Line Reference

noitd - Reconnoiter scout daemon
stratcond - Reconnoiter data collector/aggregator.

6. Code Reference

6.1. Internal Functions

List of Figures

1.1. Some image properties

List of Examples

4.1. Basic noitd configuration struture
4.2. Simple implicit inheritance configuration example
4.3. Simple explicity inheritance configuration example
4.4. Sample configuration for the log section
5.1. Establishing PTR records for hosts.
5.2. Checking labs.omniti.com.
5.3. Checking an HTTP and HTTPS URL.
5.4. Loading the lua loader.
5.5. Send an email to test SMTP service.
5.6. Monitor two varnish instances with management on port 8081
5.7. Ping checks against a host
5.8. Tracking PostgreSQL database sizes.
5.9. Checking resmon services on OmniTI Labs.
5.10. Checking for two specific resmon services on OmniTI Labs.
5.11. Simple snmp polling of two switchports
5.12. Example using config inheritance to show reuse
5.13. Simple ssh polling of 4 machines

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