Re: [Proposal] control storage systems

[Martin Pala]

Christian Hopp wrote:

> On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Jan-Henrik Haukeland wrote:
>
> > > Yeah, it will be excellent, if monit could watch diskspace too
>
> > Or it could be a small server that support http and query monit
> > servers and getting status from them. The user could use a browser
> > to speak with this server and thereby display the status for all
> > monit servers running (much like the main status page monit shows
> > today).
>
> Or monit could communicate directly with other monits, like
>
> import * from machine.network.org
>        auth user:passwd
>        ssl enable
>        every 5
>
> check foo
>        ...
>        depend bar::machine.network.org
>
>
> Christian
I think there are two ways - either extend monit to support callbacks to 
other monit nodes as outlined Christian or to have 'independent' system 
to catch all informations from other nodes (like HP openview).

I'm maybe more inclined to second variant - i think it is in fact 
independent task - one thing is to collect data and provide layer for 
mangling processes directly on the node by simple process (monit) and 
one to collect and work with these data over network (e.g. SNMP 
managment station task). Such monit console could have GTK/KDE/whatever 
frontend as wrote Jan, do some customizable grafs (watch 
history/progress) and to do it faster it can use database backend for 
example.

What about it?

Martin