On 2009-01-16, Lars Noodin <larsnoo...@openoffice.org> wrote: > Gregory Edigarov wrote: >> Well, what's your needs? > > Initially very simple needs. I need to be able to prove/disprove > rudimentary availability. Basically like a layer 7 ping, checking that > the port is responding with the correct protocol: > > ssh is answering yes/no. > imap is answering yes/no. > imaps is answering yes/no. > https, etc. > > I can see that a year or so it will be more complex: > > mysql (specific db) responding to queries y/n > postgresql (specific db) responding to queries y/n > z39.50 (specific db) responding to queries y/n > ldap (specific directory) responding to queries y/n
I came up with the idea to use relayd for that too, for simple cases it seems like it could be a good fit. With a few changes or a wrapper you could even use nagios plugins to do the actual checks (unfortunately the return codes are the wrong way round to use them directly as things stand now; nagios plugins return 0 for success, "check script" expects 0 for failure). >> If nagios seems to be an overhead - I would recommend a nice daemon >> called 'monit'. I like it very much because of the ease of setup and >> support it offers. > > Thanks. > http://mmonit.com/monit/documentation/monit.html /usr/ports/sysutils/monit. It's quite keen on having pid files though.
