Health check for Open vStorage, Alba & Arakoon

Description

The health check is classified as a monitoring, detection and healing tool for Open vStorage.

Required packages for Health Check

wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py; python get-pip.py
pip install flower
pip install psutil
pip install xmltodict

Installation

Recommended: Run on 30 min. - hourly base (on every node), to check the health of your Open vStorage.

Add following code to Health Check Open vStorage commands

vim /usr/bin/ovs

elif [ "$1" = "healthcheck" ] ; then
    cd /opt/OpenvStorage-healthcheck
    if [ "$2" = "unattended" ] ; then
        # launch unattended healthcheck
        python -c "from ovs_health_check.main import Main; Main(True)"
    else
        # launch healthcheck
        python ovs_health_check/main.py
    fi

Execution by hand

# via Open vStorage commands
ovs healthcheck

# native python execution
cd /opt/OpenvStorage-healthcheck/

python ovs_health_check/main.py

Monitoring with CheckMK or other server-deamon monitoring systems

OUTPUT for CheckMK or other monitoring systems

ovs healthcheck unattended

Execute by CRON.hourly (will only generate logs)

* *   * * *  root  /usr/bin/ovs healthcheck unattended

Important to know!

• No files in the vPools may be named after: ovs-healthcheck-test-{storagerouter_id}.xml
• No volumes in the vPools may be named after: ovs-healthcheck-test-{storagerouter_id}.raw

Branch Info or contributions

• The 'master' branch is marked as the main but unstable branch
• The 'release' branches are the official releases of the HEALTH CHECK Project
• We'd love to have your contributions, read Community Information and Rules of conduct for notes on how to get started.

File a bug

Open vStorage and it's automation is quality checked to the highest level. Unfortunately we might have overlooked some tiny topics here or there. The Open vStorage HEALTH CHECK Project maintains a public issue tracker where you can report bugs and request features. This issue tracker is not a customer support forum but an error, flaw, failure, or fault in the Open vStorage software.

If you want to submit a bug, please read the Community Information for notes on how to get started.

License

The Open vStorage Healthcheck is released under the Apache 2 license.