Monitoring Grouper Functions
Here are tips for monitoring Grouper functions:
- Set up Nagios to check the Grouper Diagnostics web service status page to be sure the daemons are running and the DB is up etc
- Set up your logs email you so you can see when people have errors (log4j.properties):
log4j.appender.grouper_mail=org.apache.log4j.net.SMTPAppender
log4j.appender.grouper_mail.To=address@school.edu
log4j.appender.grouper_mail.From=noreply@school.edu
log4j.appender.grouper_mail.SMTPHost=smtp.server.edu
log4j.appender.grouper_mail.Threshold=ERROR
log4j.appender.grouper_mail.BufferSize=100
log4j.appender.grouper_mail.Subject=Grouper <at:var at:name="envName" /> Error
log4j.appender.grouper_mail.layout= org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.grouper_mail.layout.ConversionPattern = %d{ISO8601}: [%t] %-5p %C{1}.%M(%L) - %m%n
# Loggers
## Default logger; will log *everything*
log4j.rootLogger = WARN, grouper_error
log4j.logger.edu = ERROR, grouper_mail
log4j.logger.com = ERROR, grouper_mail
log4j.logger.org = ERROR, grouper_mail
- Periodically check a service that uses XMPP to make sure the messaging is still working
- Check the daily Grouper report to get a summary of the total state of your Grouper installation
Setting Up Notifications
- For XMPP Notification, see XMPP documentation
- For email notification of items such as membership changes, disable date changes, or permission changes, use rules and follow the examples for use cases on email notification.