===suggested Sequential Task List=== ~1) ++manually add Chris to the list of hosts++ ~1) ++carefully review existing configs for monitoring and alerting++ ~1) ++devise scheme for rsyncing configs, histories, etc.++ ~1) ++prepare downloadable tarball and instructions for next host++ ===Ideas to be discussed=== - Criteria for setting up a Monitoring Station - Required MTA - Pre-requisites (apache, ssh, etc) - How to inform the audit team of a new Monitoring Station - Email template that should be filled out when server established. EXAMPLE SERVER IP: SERVER LOCATION (City, country): SERVER ADMIN: ADMINS EMAIL: Upon submission of this, the Audit team will audit the new Monitoring Station, and when approved, a hostname will be given with the .glue tld. - Naming convention. for consistency with Hostmastering, .... mon1.pp.cc.opennic.glue where pp is province/state and cc is country - We would like to consider/test a 'subversion (SVN)' system to keep revisions of the config files. Any ideas, recommendations? Who has this experience? === Future Ideas === I have been playing with Centreon at work, and I have found the graphing features it offers very useful. This could be applied to the auditing infrastructure to supply graph statistics, of; - Latency from the monitoring host to the monitored host (can also set up monitoring agents, whos sole purpose is to feed data back to the monitor) - DNS query response time Using SNMP with a unique community name which would be hard to guess could also help get remote host information easier.