Re: NOC scripting

[Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@pasteur.fr>]

On Tuesday 23 January 2001, at 10 h 26, the keyboard of Michael Boman 
<michael@elinux.com.sg> wrote:

> you may ask? Well, what if the
> router/switch/firewall/another-single-point-of-failure between your
> monitoring server and the rest of the network goes down? BB will scream
> that every server/router (etc) you have on the other side is down, while
> NetSaint understands that it's the router/firewall/etc that is down.

mon <http://www.kernel.org/software/mon/> does the same, with its useful feature 'depend':

watch kata
   service http
        interval 2m
        monitor http.monitor
        depend kata:ping
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        If the machine does not reply to pings, there is no need testing Apache.