hawkeye a monitoring and management tool for distributed systems

1www.cs.wisc.edu/condor

HawkEyeA Monitoring and

Management Tool for

Distributed Systems Todd Tannenbaum

Department of Computer SciencesUniversity of Wisconsin-Madisonhttp://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor

[email protected]


What does Condor have?› …lots of core technology for building a

distributed system



distributed system› …lots of core technology for monitoring

the status of a machine




the status of a machine› …lots of core technology for managing

a work load of tasks




the status of a machine› …lots of core technology for managing

a work load of tasks› …lots of really, truly, skilled and

experienced developers and researchers at building distributed systems. Some of the best. Standout state employees. Honest. Email for Wisconsin Gov Scott McCallum:

[email protected]


One day an avid Condor user asked:


One day an avid Condor user asked:

Say, could Condor Technology be

used for distributed

system administration??


Time to think…› Gathered up our experiences with

our own management tasks, looked at the mature Condor technology available to us, and HawkEye effort was born.

› Completely separate from Condor from end user prospective. Can install HawkEye, or Condor, or both


First Component: MONITORING

› Sysadmins first need information about what is happening on the machines they are responsible for. Both Current and Past Information must be consolidated and

easily accessible Information must be dynamic


Condor ClassAds› Technology for an entity to

describe itself

› Simple attribute value pairs [

load_average = 1.3free_Swap_space_mb = 140number_of_processes = 92keyboard_idle_secs = 6ram = 128total_swap = 512total_memory = ram + total_swapbusy = load_average > 1.0

]


Condor ClassAds, cont.› No fixed schema› Attributes can contain values or

expressions› Serialize Ads in XML› Open source libraries on C++ and Java

to: Manipulate Ads and Ad attributes Store Ads Query collections of Ads

› Bindings for Perl and others on the way…


HawkEye Monitoring Agent


HawkEye Manager ClassAd

UpdatesVia SecureUDP




HawkEye Manager HawkEye Monitoring Agent





/proc, kstat…

Hawkeye_Startup_Agent

Hawkeye_Monitor


HawkEye Manager ClassAd

UpdatesVia SecureUDP


Monitor Agent, cont.

› Updates are sent periodically Information does not get stale

› Updates also serve as a heartbeat monitor Know when a machine is down

› Out of the box, the update ClassAd has many attributes about the machine of interest for system administration Current Prototype = 184 attributes


What if I want to monitor

something you didn’t think

about?


Custom Attributes

/proc, kstat…

Hawkeye_Startup_Agent

Hawkeye_Monitor


HawkEye Manager

Data from hawkeye_update_attribute

command line tool

Create your ownHawkEye plugins,or share plugins with others


Role of HawkEye Manager

› Store all incoming ClassAds in a indexed resident data structure Fast response to client tool queries about

current state “Show me all machines with a load average >

10”

› Periodically store ClassAd attributes into a Round Robin Database Store information over time “Show me a graph with the load average for

this machine over the past week”

› Speak to clients via CEDAR, HTTP

HawkEye Manager

Several different clients

› Command-line, GUI, Web-based


But sysadmins also sometimes have to do

work…

› Task: copy a new library onto the local disk of each machine. Just a script to copy via rcp/scp to

every machine… or is it?


Running tasks on behalf of the sysadmin

› Submit your sysadmin tasks to HawkEye Tasks are stored in a persistent queue by

the Manager Tasks can leave the queue upon completion,

or repeat after specified intervals Tasks can have complex interdependencies

via DAGMan Records are kept on which task ran where

› Sounds like Condor, eh? Yes, but simpler…


Run Tasks in response to monitoring information› ClassAd “Requirements” Attribute

› Example: Send email if a machine is low on disk space or low on swap space Submit an email task with an attribute:

Requirements = free_disk < 5 || free_swap < 5

› Example w/ task interdependency: If load average is high and OS=Linux and console is Idle, submit a task which runs “top”, if top sees Netscape, submit a task to kill Netscape


HawkEye Design Goals› Monitoring

Reliable presence Get Data off the node in an extensible, consistent

manner

› Run Tasks In response to probe information Repeat or once-only semantics Audit Log

› Independent and self-contained› Cross-Platform


Current Status

› Just Beginning this project

› Initial release early summer

› Prototypes already running – Stop in and see initial HawkEye Work

Rm 3385 on Weds 9am – 12pm


Thank you!

I was an overworked

sysadmin. Now I have more free time thanks to

HawkEye!

hawkeye a monitoring and management tool for distributed systems

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