Beanmonitor - monitoring of OpenVZ user_beancounters

Moved to hm2k/beanmonitor on Github

Description

Basically, the software you can acquire here allows you to easily monitor user_beancounters used by OpenVZ to limit resources per vps. Now I know that usually you are not too interested in how often your users try to violate the limits you impose on them but in my environment, a machine "split" into several instances using OpenVZ, it's pretty critical to know when the assigned resources aren't enough anymore.

On that note, I'm planning on adding a way of seeing which limits are about to be breached by a vps so you can decide whether to raise the barrier or to wait for it to fail.

Features

• emails failures on a per vps or catchall basis (check wiki)
• compares to set of counter files and writes differences to the console in an ordered manner

Status

• Parsing files works
• Config file works; can be created and modified using the command line
• Ruby source can be "compiled" into one single file to minimize deployment effort
• Counter differences are currently simply dumped to console in YAML
• Emailing works per vps and for administrators (all errors)
• Email templates are available but currently hardcoded

Roadmap

• Display vps which are close to a beancounter barrier (let's call this "early warning system"
• possibly auto increase limit if close to barrier
• disk quota reporting
• add svn code documentation (check out Rakefile / :compile task)

Feature requests?

Best would be to add a feature request to the issue tracker so it can be commented on in an ordered manner :-)