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Re: detecting failed clients and perl.


From: Mark . Burgess
Subject: Re: detecting failed clients and perl.
Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 19:07:01 +0200 (MET DST)

On  9 Apr, Mike Lang wrote:
> How would you notify yourself when a client doesn't run cfengine for a 
> predefined
> period.  I guess I want a email with a list of hosts that didn't run.  If 
> all things are well
> I would get not mail.  If a host is messed up then I get an email, if power 
> to a bld is down
> I still only get one email with a list of clients that didn't run.
> 
> I could see a mail filter that would keep a list of clients and check them 
> off as they run,
> or have cfengine touch a file on an nfs mount to show the last run.  I'm 
> suure someone has a
> better idea.
> 
> Something completely different; cfwrap and cfmail use perl, do you keep a 
> copy of perl local
> to each machine?  If I keep perl on an nfs mount this could be a point of 
> failure since the cron
> jobs would fail.
> 
> Thanks for the input,
>                  --Mike
> ___________________________
> Michael Lang    mlang@lanl.gov
> Los Alamos    National Laboratory
> ph:505-665-5756,     fax:665-5638
> MS B256, Los Alamos, NM 87545
> 


try something like  cfrun -- -p | grep -v cfrun

cheers
Mark

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