Geoff Galitz wrote:
>
>> I have a feeling that introducing nagios monitoring is a little too
>> involved, though. I want to distribute the setup to external systems, so
>> ideally there should be one "monitoring" package install and a simple
>> "enable" command at the most, in addition to installation of the actual
>> software.
>>
>> rpm -Uvh monit-<version>.rpm
>> chkconfig monit on
>>
>> Is really quite ideal, except for the fact that it only nearly gives me
>> what I want :-(
>>
>
>
> Gotcha. Would a simple shell script be sufficient? Something like:
>
Yeah, I might just end up doing something like this...
I suppose I could also have "cron" control the "iterations" rather than
doing a loop with wait, but that's just a matter of taste...
> -------------------------------
> while : ## loop forever
> do
> /sbin/service [app] status
> if [$? -ne 0 ]; ## services which should be running, but are dead
> ## return a non-zero status code
> then
> service [app] restart
> fi
> sleep 120 ## sleep for about two minutes
> do
> -------------------------------
>
> Adding mail notifications and other standard functions would be trivial. To
> monitor various services just create add a for loop in there.
> Just a thought.
>
Yep. Maybe it can be that simple. I suppose I just wanted to know if
somebody else had published something that would essentially be this
script with a few of the trivial extensions you mention, as I don't want
to re-invent the wheel even if it's a very basic one. But perhaps not...
- Toralf
> -Geoff
>
> ---------------------------------
> Geoff Galitz
> Blankenheim NRW, Germany
> http://www.galitz.org/
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>
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