Re: monit STATUS

[Rick Robino]

Gents,

On Tuesday, August 26, 2003, at 10:56  AM, Jan-Henrik Haukeland wrote:

> 1)
> Okay, this was a good suggestion:
>
>                   if failed checksum then unmonitor

Just thought I'd ask that when and if you do put this sort of feature 
into monit that you might also consider letting a start/stop/action 
script trigger the un-monitoring of a service - I could handle making 
my scripts exit a meaningful value, or emit a state code, etc.  Some 
time back there was discussion about the setting/getting of special 
environment variables and that piqued my interest in being able to 
prevent spurious restarts, pages, etc, but especially fallback 
scenarios... notably the ability for my scripts to be able to tell when 
it's *really* time to send pages out or cut the heartbeat.

I think there is a good case to be made for allowing some very limited, 
simple handoff communication between monit and outside processes at the 
points where monit detects that it has to do something.  Ok, I guess 
that case has already been made but I just wanted to emphasize that 
monit doesn't necessarily have to include every feature like this 
within itself, that you guys can give yourself a break about releasing 
the holy grail and let users handle some cases.

BTW, what you guys have done for 4.0 is tremendous.  Your parents 
should be very proud :-)

--
Richard T. Robino
http://www.wavedivision.com/~rrobino/