Failover Controller Health Checks

Failover Controller File Descriptors

This Failover Controller health check checks that the number of file descriptors used does not rise above some percentage of the Failover Controller file descriptor limit. A failure of this health check may indicate a bug in either Hadoop or Cloudera Manager. Contact Cloudera support. This test can be configured using the File Descriptor Monitoring Thresholds Failover Controller monitoring setting.

Short Name: File Descriptors

Property Name Description Template Name Default Value Unit
File Descriptor Monitoring Thresholds The health check thresholds of the number of file descriptors used. Specified as a percentage of file descriptor limit. failovercontroller_fd_thresholds critical:70.000000, warning:50.000000 PERCENT

Failover Controller Host Health

This Failover Controller health check factors in the health of the host upon which the Failover Controller is running. A failure of this check means that the host running the Failover Controller is experiencing some problem. See that host's status page for more details.This test can be enabled or disabled using the FailoverController Host Health Check Failover Controller monitoring setting.

Short Name: Host Health

Property Name Description Template Name Default Value Unit
FailoverController Host Health Check When computing the overall FailoverController health, consider the host's health. failovercontroller_host_health_enabled true no unit

Failover Controller Log Directory Free Space

This Failover Controller health check checks that the filesystem containing the log directory of this Failover Controller has sufficient free space. This test can be configured using the Log Directory Free Space Monitoring Absolute Thresholds and Log Directory Free Space Monitoring Percentage Thresholds Failover Controller monitoring settings.

Short Name: Log Directory Free Space

Property Name Description Template Name Default Value Unit
Log Directory Free Space Monitoring Absolute Thresholds The health check thresholds for monitoring of free space on the filesystem that contains this role's log directory. log_directory_free_space_absolute_thresholds critical:5368709120.000000, warning:10737418240.000000 BYTES
Log Directory Free Space Monitoring Percentage Thresholds The health check thresholds for monitoring of free space on the filesystem that contains this role's log directory. Specified as a percentage of the capacity on that filesystem. This setting is not used if a Log Directory Free Space Monitoring Absolute Thresholds setting is configured. log_directory_free_space_percentage_thresholds critical:never, warning:never PERCENT

Failover Controller Process Status

This Failover Controller health check checks that the Cloudera Manager Agent on the Failover Controller host is heart beating correctly and that the process associated with the Failover Controller role is in the state expected by Cloudera Manager. A failure of this health check may indicate a problem with the Failover Controller process, a lack of connectivity to the Cloudera Manager Agent on the Failover Controller host, or a problem with the Cloudera Manager Agent. This check can fail either because the Failover Controller has crashed or because the Failover Controller will not start or stop in a timely fashion. Check the Failover Controller logs for more details. If the check fails because of problems communicating with the Cloudera Manager Agent on the Failover Controller host, check the status of the Cloudera Manager Agent by running /etc/init.d/cloudera-scm-agent status on the Failover Controller host, or look in the Cloudera Manager Agent logs on the Failover Controller host for more details. This test can be enabled or disabled using the FailoverController Process Health Check Failover Controller monitoring setting.

Short Name: Process Status

Property Name Description Template Name Default Value Unit
FailoverController Process Health Check Enables the health check that the FailoverController's process state is consistent with the role configuration failovercontroller_scm_health_enabled true no unit

Failover Controller Unexpected Exits

This Failover Controller health check checks that the Failover Controller has not recently exited unexpectedly. The check returns "Bad" health if the number of unexpected exits goes above a critical threshold. For example, if this check is configured with a critical threshold of 1, this check would return "Good" health if there have been no unexpected exits recently. If there has been 1 or more unexpected exits recently, this check would return "Bad" health. This test can be configured using the Unexpected Exits Thresholds and Unexpected Exits Monitoring Period Failover Controller monitoring settings.

Short Name: Unexpected Exits

Property Name Description Template Name Default Value Unit
Unexpected Exits Monitoring Period The period to review when computing unexpected exits. unexpected_exits_window 5 MINUTES
Unexpected Exits Thresholds The health check thresholds for unexpected exits encountered within a recent period specified by the unexpected_exits_window configuration for the role. unexpected_exits_thresholds critical:any, warning:never no unit