Status?

[frank gleason]

Actually I have nagios and I'm trying to get rid of it. monit is very  
good. It does need a few features, the most obvious is a centralized  
view.

fg


On May 2, 2007, at 2:10 AM, Alexis Yushin wrote:

> Hi,
>
> For what its worth – I do not think monit is not really suitable as  
> a monitoring/alerting tool as  such. It is a rather process control  
> tool which should be used in conjunction with a proper alerting  
> system such as nagios for example.
>
> One can easily add tests in nagios that would be monitoring monit  
> logfiles and raising alerts when something goes wrong.
>
> That’s how we’ve solved this and it works fine!
>
> Alexis
>
>
> On 5/1/07 9:11 PM, "Michael Townley" <mike at onshored.com> wrote:
>
>> I had a simple idea to write a script to connect to each monit  
>> instance and just grep fro the hex value of red and then alert you  
>> to the url of the instance with a red value. Once in to the  
>> individual instance of monit, you can do whatever is needed. of  
>> course the script could easily be ran and monitored by monit.  
>> could even be a monit script. connect, parse the page for hex  
>> value for red, if red, alert, if not, move on.
>>
>> I haven't moved forward on this due to other things on my plate  
>> that take priority and also due to a thin hope that mmonit will  
>> actually be out soon.
>>
>> I have no idea what feature set to expect from mmonit or even what  
>> was planned for it. so as far as I am concerned, anything to  
>> aggregate the status of multiple sites running in one place works  
>> for me.
>>
>> Can we get some status from the developers besides "It will be  
>> ready soon"? There is no reason for vaporware as long as we a have  
>> a group of eager users and a feature set. Set up anonymous cvs and  
>> svn or something and let us grab what you have, however limited,  
>> and let the community go with it. I fear that inaction from a few  
>> could really kill what has potential to be a great project.
>>
>> Mike
>>
>> On 5/1/07, Piotrek <pki at wp.pl> wrote:
>>> My $.01 cent, mmonit would never be released.
>>>
>>> :-[
>>>
>>>
>>> 2007/5/1, Michael Townley < mike at onshored.com  
>>> <mailto:mike at onshored.com> >:
>>>> If nothing else, can you just release the code to what you do  
>>>> have? The whole point of opensource is so that a community can  
>>>> contribute. Open your source and let those of us who are willing  
>>>> to put in the work, do so.
>>>>
>>>> My $.02
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 5/1/07, frank gleason < frankg at fgleason.com  
>>>> <mailto:frankg at fgleason.com> > wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Since it' s May I'll ask again. How is mmonit coming along? How  
>>>>> about
>>>>> a little information, like feature set...
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