On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 6:14 PM, Chris Hoogendyk <[email protected]> wrote: > Pardon me if this is a naive question, but -- What, exactly, would something > like nagios have to offer? Amanda doesn't run as a daemon. So there's no > need to check and see that it is still running. Typically, amcheck is run > off cron to catch things during the day when sysadmins are around to do > something about them. In either case, you get an email that gives you the > status of a completed run or if something needs attention.
In some cases, the amcheck emails do not go to the folks who need them -- for example, when Amanda is backing up a set of workstations that are managed by a different team (and that team uses Nagios). That's all I can think of. Dustin -- Open Source Storage Engineer http://www.zmanda.com
