On 05/10/2011 04:26 PM, no-re...@cfengine.com wrote: > Forum: Cfengine Help > Subject: Re: the relation of entropy to anomaly detection - what does entropy > mean here? how does this work? > Author: neilhwatson > Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,21865,21873#msg-21873 > > Cfengine's monitoring is very different and superior to anything else I've > seen. Cf notices when things are abnormal for that particular host. Normal > monitoring solutions use centralized thresholds that are then manually > changed for each exceptional host. > > For example a load of 5 or less might be considered normal for all hosts > except some who are set higher. This is the traditional way. Cfengine does > away with this. The monitor daemon statically analyzes the host and > determines what is normal. No guessing. No generalizing. > > I would like to see more examples and studies of how Cfengine can be used in > this way. > > _______________________________________________ > Help-cfengine mailing list > Help-cfengine@cfengine.org > https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
Thanks Neil, I feel a Special Topics Guide coming on.... _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
