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I'm about to embark on a biggish rollout of local watchdogs in my |
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monitoring solutions - about 100 hosts or so. |
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First tool I reached for was my trusty monit, been using it for years. |
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Before I start though, I figured I should ask around if anyone has |
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experince n a package that does what monit does better than monit does |
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it. I find I type way too much stuff into monitrc, too many hard-coded |
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file paths, too much stuff I have to look up in long-form to put into |
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monitrc. Unfortunately, systemd with it's respawn feature isn't a global |
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option, too many systems are not systemd. SysVInit is the common denominator |
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My needs here are pretty simple: |
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local watchdog that checks if a program is running and restart it if |
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not. If that fails 3 times or so, alert me. |
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Maybe a few file/dir/fifo monitors as well. Not much else. |
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I don't need any of monit's graphing features or M/monit, I have other |
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tools for that. And mostly don't even need it's http API either. |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |