On Aug 24, 2011, at 11:19 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Wed, 24.08.11 10:10, Jesse Keating (jkeating@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > >>>> FWIW, I do think that there may be use-cases for socket activation of a >>>> database. I'd like to support the option ... the problem is to do so >>>> without breaking existing, expected behaviors. >>> >>> It was noted up-thread that systemd can tell you whether the underlying >>> daemon is running or not, though I guess that doesn't tell you whether >>> it's entirely in a functional state. You could do a two-stage thing: >>> check with systemd whether the daemon is running, and ping it if so? >> >> >> Some of the argument here is that it is difficult to do this from a >> remote host. You'd have to engage in remote execution of software, >> e.g. using nagios nrpe to remotely (from the nagios system) execute >> commands on the database system to call systemd to check the status of >> the db. > > systemctl actually knows the -H switch to access remote systems (via > ssh), but this needs a patch to dbus to actually work which I still > haven't found time to ultimately clean up for proper inclusion. > > Lennart That would require your nagios (or other monitoring) system to be running systemd, which may not be the case for quite a while :) - jlk -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
