August 2012
Intermediate to advanced
332 pages
7h 3m
English
Besides the health of the HBase-related daemons and their logs, what you might want to monitor is the overview of the current status of the cluster. This status basically includes:
hbck result showing whether the HBase tables are consistent fsck result showing whether HDFS is healthyIn this recipe, we will create a check_hbase Nagios plugin to perform the task of monitoring. We will install our check_hbase plugin on the master node of the cluster, and remotely execute it with Nagios from the monitor server using the NRPE Nagios plugin.
We assume that you have installed and configured the Nagios NRPE plugin on your monitor and master server. ...