> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Martin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 1:38 PM
> Subject: Re: [e-smith-devinfo] E-smith monitor suggestions
>
>
> Not sure if it's possible but it would be nice to have some
> kind of alert
> sent via email if problems were found.
Sending the email is the easy part. The problem with this type of thing is
defining what exactly a "problem" is. For example, on systems with very
small drives, free space below 20% is a problem. For others it is not a
problem until you hit 5%. Other folks prefer to set those levels as actual
free space rather than percentages. And so on. Then there is the issue of
"warning" vs "alert" messages, or "code yellow" vs "code red" problems, or
other severity mapping schemes. There is even the issue of what to call them
-- Warning/Alert, Code Green/Yellow/Red, Level 1/2/3, Low/Med/High, etc.
These issues can be solved by allowing user specified trigger levels for one
or multiple severity levels, plus the appropriate labeling and message
content, etc. But then you have the problem of maintaining the configuration
for the alert system. Sometimes the configuration management for an
application can be a larger task than the application itself!
I'm not saying it can't be done or wouldn't be valuable if it were done --
I'm only cautioning that the number of options are many and depending upon
how many are pursued the task may not be simple at all.
Scott
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