Re: New monit sale pitch

[Martin Pala]

I have made some progress last week (mainly weekend) and i think the it 
is cca. 50% done. This week i'm on the training until friday and every 
day as soon as i'm back from training i'm starting normal work (which is 
pretty awfull and don't provide any space for monit development :(

I will keep dependency stuff between new tasks (directory/file/device) 
monitoring too => it will be possible to define for example:

check device /data
name fs-data
start program = "/usr/sbin/mount /data"
stop program = "/usr/sbin/umount /data"
if space used > 60% then alert
if space used > 95% then stop
if inode used > 60% then alert
if inode free < 1000 then stop

check mailserver ...
 ...
 depends fs-data
...

There are yet lot of things to do, as soon as i will have it ready, i 
will submit the patch to the list for discussion.

This will allow interesting things such as automatic stop of process 
before the filesystem will run over, which will prevent data 
inconsistencies. Next good property will be advanced clustering feature 
- you could have shared storage start with node process group. If we 
will implement SCSI reservation and SCSI ping, monit will become nearly 
full-featured cluster manager.

Regarded to device, etc. stuff i think it will be better to use somthing 
like:

monit - system for monitoring services

and

"Monit Service Manager"

etc.


Martin


Jan-Henrik Haukeland wrote:

> The 3.2 release seems to go well, no complaints yet, and almost 140
> downloads so far.
>
> When Martin is done implementing the device check (which I really look
> forward to) monit will start to become something more than a simple
> daemon manager and I think we will need new marketing material. In the
> man file monit is described as:
>
> NAME
>       monit - system for monitoring programs
>
>
> DESCRIPTION
>       monit is a utility for monitoring and managing daemons or
>       similar programs running on a Unix system;
>
> And the web interface says: "Monit Process Manager"
>
>
> Anyone with new marketing suggestions?
>
>