Andrew, thanks for the info.

I'll have a bash <groan> at writing a nagios script based on 
slon_watchdog2 and post it so that someone can let me know how I can 
test/simulate various possible types of slon failure.

John Sidney-Woollett

Andrew Sullivan wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 10:35:17AM +0000, John Sidney-Woollett wrote:
> 
>>I think that the slon_watchdog2 script queries the database to see 
>>whether the node is working properly - is this the best approach?
> 
> 
> It's a good approach in that it checks not only whether the daemon is
> listening, but also whether it's actually working.  The latter
> question is not a trivial one -- if something is wrong, you want to
> know it sooner rather than later.   The watchdog also logs in a way
> designed to be convenient for Nagios.  Chris can provide more
> details.
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