ok, I like mon. no bloat. no crud. just does the job. so, in a sense,
there's no real need for ongoing activity or development -- except that
the user documentation is sparse or non-existent. Oh, and the name. It
took me forever to stumble on mon. I'd been looking at hobbit, nagios,
etc. Searched many times over and wasn't satisfied. Even knowing about
mon, it's impossible to search for stuff related to it. Is it ever
mentioned on linuxquestions.org? on sunmanagers list? who knows? can't
filter for it. oh, but I did mention it the other day on linuxquestions,
so, yes, it is there.
enough of that though.
I was looking through the wiki, wishing for more detail,
recommendations, how-to, etc. On a lark, I clicked on edit. It allowed
me to set up an account. Verified my email. I haven't edited or added
anything yet, but I have experience doing this sort of thing. I've made
additions and corrections to the wiki at zmanda, I've written
documentation for commercial projects, I've published articles in
computer magazines, I've made corrections to wikipedia, and I run a
couple of wikis in our department here.
I don't want to step on any toes, but I was wondering . . . if I were to
add a user documentation section parallel to the man pages and readme,
would that be approved of? Would others look at it, add to it, correct
it, etc? I think when I set up my account, I was only the 7th account.
On a different note, has anyone thought about or written a growl alert?
http://growl.info
http://remotegrowl.erlang.no
This would allow popups on a Mac OS X desktop. The remotegrowl listens
on a udp port. So, a growl.alert would just need to open a udp port to
the appropriate host and send a password and alert. It's unlikely that I
can get an analog phone line, and if my mail server is down, I'm stuck
as far as sending any kind of alert. If no one has thought of this, done
it, or cares to do it, I can take a shot at it. I haven't done any
network programming in perl before, but there are plenty of templates
around, and I have a colleague who might help.
TIA
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