Composite of multiple nodes?

cornbuzzer

Not sure how to ask this.

We offer a web-based service to our clients.  This www server depends on several components (other servers, routers, switches, firewalls), all of which are set up as individual nodes in NPM.  I can easily look at stats for any one on these nodes.

What I want to do it create a 'composite' of all of them so that I can track uptime/availablility of the www service, and be able to report on which component failed if the service is down.

I did set up an advanced alert which alerts if any of the nodes goes down, but this only provides down time info, not up time.

Am I making sense?  If anyone has ideas on how to tackle this, I'd appreciate your input.

byrona

We provide similiar services and I as well would like to accomplish this.  Here are a few ideas I had on this...

You can use the Orion APM to monitor services and Orion NPM to monitor nodes.

You can then use the map, at the top level use an icon to represent each of your services.  Under those icons you will have all of your applications (from APM) and you nodes (from NPM) that are necessary for the delivery of that service.  This should then give you a representation of your service status using all of the components necessary to provide those services.

This doesn't address the uptime/availability.  To accomplish that the best I have come up with is using Orion APM again to look at all of the deliverable components of a service.  (E.g.  In the case of a web service you would look at the websites as the deliverable)