Comments on: Impact of Infrastructure Automation Tools on Monitoring

By: redsnow rc14

redsnow rc14 — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 15:14:43 +0000

thnx for sharing the nice post

By: vanzari auto

vanzari auto — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 09:30:53 +0000

Just do not know if something will come to be implemented. I strongly believe that it is very important to achieve but I think there are certain interests that will oppose. And those companies are quite strong. Need to try anyway. So they did and those from Google, with hard work.

By: berkay

berkay — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 19:56:41 +0000

Hi Matt,
The demo you had sounds very good. As you've also mentioned there are number of potential integration points between monitoring and infrastructure automation tools that would significantly increase the value of both sets of tools. I'm just beginning to explore them, and possibilities are indeed exciting.

Looking forward to learn more about your Chef integration when it becomes available!

Berkay

By: Matt Ray

Matt Ray — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 19:28:53 +0000

Excellent post, some Zenoss users are already on this track. We've got integrations for Puppet (http://community.zenoss.org/docs/DOC-5818) and Cfengine (http://community.zenoss.org/docs/DOC-5897) and I'm working on the Chef integration (should have code available soon). Eventually the Zenoss cookbook for Chef should deploy a Zenoss server and automatically monitor the devices managed by Chef. One of the really exciting applications of tighter integration between infrastructure automation and monitoring is using the monitoring application to dynamically allocate or replace nodes in response to events (outages, heavy load, etc.). We demoed a bit of this at Velocity (Zenoss/Chef/Dyn) and should have another demo at OSCON.

Thanks,
Matt Ray
Zenoss Community Manager