Re: Plans for the next release

[Martin Pala]

Rory Toma wrote:

> I use the http interface as a command channel, and will have apps write
> w/o a browser directly (over the VPN) to start/stop stuff. I do not want
> stuff visible from a browser.

Maybe it could be useful to allow define output format from cervlet (for 
example plain/xml/html/...) in variable:

"GET /apache?action=start&output=plain HTTP/1.0\r\n\r\n"

It can allow to have central monitoring station (or more such stations), 
that will watch services on the network and in the case of failure it 
can mangle the service via monit httpd. The output format could be 
useful for implementing the central engine (script like or with HTML 
interface - XML could be used when there is need to use monit with some 
kind of provisioning system, DB, etc. or just when you need other output 
formats).

Maybe it wouldn't be necesary - in the case that we will have 
possibility to configure daemons from external sources (like LDAP), the 
daemons that will run in any case on all monitored hosts can receive 
commands throuhg command "queue" or attribute on LDAP server (similar to 
SNMP write). Central monitoring station then can write to LDAP to 
restart service, etc.

Martin