detecting failed clients and perl.

[Mike Lang]

How would you notify yourself when a client doesn't run cfengine for a 
predefined
period.  I guess I want a email with a list of hosts that didn't run.  If 
all things are well
I would get not mail.  If a host is messed up then I get an email, if power 
to a bld is down
I still only get one email with a list of clients that didn't run.

I could see a mail filter that would keep a list of clients and check them 
off as they run,
or have cfengine touch a file on an nfs mount to show the last run.  I'm 
suure someone has a
better idea.

Something completely different; cfwrap and cfmail use perl, do you keep a 
copy of perl local
to each machine?  If I keep perl on an nfs mount this could be a point of 
failure since the cron
jobs would fail.

Thanks for the input,
                --Mike
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