On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 04:31:42PM +1000, Ken Foskey wrote: > On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 18:22 +0200, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > <quote who="Ken Foskey"> > > > > > I need to ensure processes have not failed, proactive. Not find out what > > > happened after someone tells me it is broken, reactive. I do not think > > > splunk can do that. > > > > Right, well, neither will your logs in any serious fashion. What you're > > looking for is Nagios (best of breed) and Cricket (or a similar tool). > > splunk was a closer answer than the two above. We are using Big Brother > for this already and more. > > I am interested in middle ware components, some names I have heard of > and not used are tibco and MQ series. These components deliver messages > reliably between systems and you can build some work flow into them > which over time a set of rules is built so that processes are tracked.
A FOSS equivalent would be the JMS (java messaging) components included in something like jboss. I really don't think you want them though. If you want reliable syslogging, you can do it over tcp. Not that you'd be likely to lose much if anything on a LAN. syslog-ng supports thjis I beleive. http://www.balabit.com/products/syslog-ng/ syslog-ng FAQ : http://www.campin.net/syslog-ng/faq.html There's a lot of stuff on logging and analysis at http://www.loganalysis.org/ A semi-FOSS (and Australian!) bit of software that might be useful is the SNARE server: http://www.intersectalliance.com > Simple job flow: > - File received into DMZ machine, bounced to format server. > - File is received on the formatting server. > - file contains 50,000 articles > - 100 are rejected by validation rules > - print format > - 20,000 are sent to Victoria to process > - 20,000 are sent to NSW > - 8,000 are formatted but never printed, stopped at end point. > - 1,900 are sent for special handling. > - Were all files actually delivered and when? > > - 49,900 go to another end point for permanent storage. > > - reports go back to the client, when were they delivered. > > - Service Level Agreements how long did the above take? > > There are a number of business rules to be built in. > > Once we have the tracking element built we then extend to alerts. File > has been in format 2 hours and not come out. > > I hope this make clearer why this is a coders post not a general post. > I would love for a generic solution to this problem. I see nothing in this post that marks it as suitable for coders over the general slug list. Matt _______________________________________________ coders mailing list coders@slug.org.au http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/coders
