[Lustre-discuss] How do you monitor your lustre?

[Erik Froese]

Yes absolutely. You also run the risk of choking the MDS if the OSSs
start freaking out and logging a lot of data. A dedicated
syslog/management host is probably the best bet.
Erik

On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Ben Evans <Ben.Evans at terascala.com> wrote:
> Would't it be better to log to a non-Lustre machine?  If your MDS goes down, you lose all your logs, which would make things a bit trickier.
>
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> Subject: Re: [Lustre-discuss] How do you monitor your lustre?
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> Make sure you have enough space on the log volume if everyone is
> logging to your MDS!
>
> On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 11:32 AM, Stuart Midgley <sdm900 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Get all your oss's to syslog to the mds and then just
>>
>> tail -f /var/log/messages
>>
>> on the mds.  I notice problems way before our monitoring software notices.
>>
>>
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>>
>> On 30/09/2010, at 17:46 , Andreas Davour wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I ask because the lmt project seem to be quite moribund. Anyone else out there
>>> doing something?
>>>
>>> /andreas
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