open source tool to monitor and maintain jenkins slaves + hosts

[Eyal Edri]

Hi,

Our jenkins environment is expanding, including slaves (both hosts and vms),
and external hosts that are being used by the jenkins slaves.

i'm looking for a management solution to help maintain all those hosts/vms and monitor them.

tasks like:
 - updating multiple hosts in one dashboard (yum/rpm/configuration)
 - monitoring free space
 - monitoring performance (cpu/mem/io..)
 - other various tasks for all hosts


how do you manage your jenkins growing environment?

Eyal Edri
RHEVM Integration team
Red Hat

[Geoff Bullen]

Have you looked at nagios for monitoring?  http://www.nagios.org/
And maybe puppet for automatic infrastructure management?  http://puppetlabs.com/

I can't think of much you won't be able to do with these...


On Nov 27, 6:30 pm, Eyal Edri <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Our jenkins environment is expanding, including slaves (both hosts and vms),
> and external hosts that are being used by the jenkins slaves.
>
> i'm looking for a management solution to help maintain all those hosts/vms and monitor them.
>
> tasks like:
>  - updating multiple hosts in one dashboard (yum/rpm/configuration)
>  - monitoring free space
>  - monitoring performance (cpu/mem/io..)
>  - other various tasks for all hosts
>
> how do you manage your jenkins growing environment?
>
> Eyal Edri
> RHEVM Integration team
> Red Hat

[Eyal Edri]

i used nagios a while back, is it good for finding bottle necks such as network or memory?

what about NTOP or CACTI?

----- Original Message -----

> From: "Geoff Bullen" <[hidden email]>
> To: "Jenkins Users" <[hidden email]>
> Sent: Sunday, November 27, 2011 10:41:36 AM
> Subject: Re: open source tool to monitor and maintain jenkins slaves + hosts
>
> Have you looked at nagios for monitoring?  http://www.nagios.org/
> And maybe puppet for automatic infrastructure management?
>  http://puppetlabs.com/
>
> I can't think of much you won't be able to do with these...
>
>
> On Nov 27, 6:30 pm, Eyal Edri <[hidden email]> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Our jenkins environment is expanding, including slaves (both hosts
> > and vms),
> > and external hosts that are being used by the jenkins slaves.
> >
> > i'm looking for a management solution to help maintain all those
> > hosts/vms and monitor them.
> >
> > tasks like:
> >  - updating multiple hosts in one dashboard (yum/rpm/configuration)
> >  - monitoring free space
> >  - monitoring performance (cpu/mem/io..)
> >  - other various tasks for all hosts
> >
> > how do you manage your jenkins growing environment?
> >
> > Eyal Edri
> > RHEVM Integration team
> > Red Hat
>

[Christopher Orr]

Hi there,

On 27/11/2011 08:30, Eyal Edri wrote:

> i'm looking for a management solution to help maintain all those hosts/vms and monitor them.
>
> tasks like:
>   - updating multiple hosts in one dashboard (yum/rpm/configuration)
>   - monitoring free space
>   - monitoring performance (cpu/mem/io..)
>   - other various tasks for all hosts
>
> how do you manage your jenkins growing environment?
>
> Eyal Edri
> RHEVM Integration team
> Red Hat

Maybe this is a silly question -- perhaps you're even in that team --
but are you aware of your colleagues at Red Hat working on OpenShift?

They seem to be running a very large Jenkins environment and appear to
have it well managed, judging from their talk at the Jenkins User
Conference:

https://www.cloudbees.com/jenkins-user-conference-2011-session-abstracts.cb#NamDuong

Regards,
Chris

[Eyal Edri]

I'm aware of openshift, and we are considering it for the open source oVirt.org project.

our product is on a much smaller scale from JBOSS (for now :), so the team needs might be different.

I was looking for a monitoring solution for an existing (non-cloud) environment.
Openshift is a very good solution for running jenkins as PAAS in the cloud, not relevant for us at this point.

Eyal.

----- Original Message -----

> From: "Christopher Orr" <[hidden email]>
> To: [hidden email]
> Sent: Thursday, December 1, 2011 2:52:49 AM
> Subject: Re: open source tool to monitor and maintain jenkins slaves + hosts
>
> Hi there,
>
> On 27/11/2011 08:30, Eyal Edri wrote:
> > i'm looking for a management solution to help maintain all those
> > hosts/vms and monitor them.
> >
> > tasks like:
> >   - updating multiple hosts in one dashboard
> >   (yum/rpm/configuration)
> >   - monitoring free space
> >   - monitoring performance (cpu/mem/io..)
> >   - other various tasks for all hosts
> >
> > how do you manage your jenkins growing environment?
> >
> > Eyal Edri
> > RHEVM Integration team
> > Red Hat
>
> Maybe this is a silly question -- perhaps you're even in that team --
> but are you aware of your colleagues at Red Hat working on OpenShift?
>
> They seem to be running a very large Jenkins environment and appear
> to
> have it well managed, judging from their talk at the Jenkins User
> Conference:
>
> https://www.cloudbees.com/jenkins-user-conference-2011-session-abstracts.cb#NamDuong
>
> Regards,
> Chris
>