Re: configuration patch - final version

[Martin Pala]

Jan-Henrik Haukeland wrote:

> So all our remaining tasks are done according to the monit 3.2 release plan,
Yet one remains - to add Oliver's documentation for monit+heartbeat. I 
can add it if needed too :)

> I propose that we test
> the system a few days and release it this Friday, if everything is okay. Agree?
Agree

> Ps.
>
> I was thinking about Olivier's proposal about writing the state to a
> "state-file". I suggest that we simply write the processlist to a binary file
> (on reload and for each poll cycle) and upon reload or restart (in case of an
> error) we re-read this file into a temporary processlist data-structure -
> traverse the old list and for all processes that match the new list use the old
> values especially reuse the do_validate flag per process. It's a very simple
> but effective strategy and will solve the state problem. What do you think?
>
> Jan-Henrik
>
>  
It will be probably the simplest way to do it. Maybe it will be suitable 
to use ASN.1 BER rules to encode runtime structures into binary form - 
it defines standard method for encoding/decoding structured data into 
binary format and it will be easier than XML parser (however XML file is 
more user-friendly for edit :)

Martin