Re: Central monit (agian)

[Jan-Henrik Haukeland]

"Caleb clark" <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi, thanks for the response, Are you the person who started monit? 
> if so i just wanted to say that it is a great idea, and going in all
> the right directions!

monit is a combined effort and credit goes to the whole team.

> Will this new version be a replacement for monit?

No! m/monit will just be a new application that is a facade to a bunch
of monit instances. The idea is that m/monit should be used to control
a set of monit daemons running on several machines. You can see a
preliminary non-functional GUI prototype of m/monit here:

http://zild.org/mmonit

The first version I'm working on will only implement the Status and
Administration tabs in the prototype.

> I am new to the list, and posted first time just yesterday. My
> reason was that I am building a cluster, using several bits of
> software, monit driving the logic. 

Interesting!

> But i got stuck where i need monit to be able to take action on
> "alive" status. I saw in your post you thought this a good idea, but
> did not see it in the TODO list on your site. Just wondering if that
> is also in the works.

It's not forgotten, but for my part I'm a bit busy right now with
m/monit and zild, maybe Martin, Christian or Rory will give it a stab?

> Im not much of a C programmer, but if there is anything  I could help
> with in the project i would be more than willing to. Ive got a fairly
> diverse enviroment here, AIX(4.33 / 5.1L) / Solaris and Debian Linux, 

Thanks! testing, documentation and new ideas are always welcome :-)

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Jan-Henrik Haukeland