On 05/18/2011 01:11 PM, Jochen Bern wrote: > On 05/18/2011 12:09 PM, Andreas Ericsson wrote: >> A service that returns OK when its parent has returned non-OK is >> obviously misconfigured (since it really shouldn't be ok with a non-OK >> parent) > > Probably just a tangent, but I strongly disagree with this statement. > You *don't* want to try and parse a complex web page for the > marketing-dpt-configurable, non-User-Experience-disrupting error message > du jour when you can just check the handful data-providing backend > services directly via their well-defined interfaces. >
Err... You seem to be disagreeing with the example case rather than this particular statement. I wholeheartedly agree with you that it's far better to check the underlying services than just the end product, but it still usually doesn't make sense to have all of those services being parents to the "ultimate" check, and it certainly doesn't make sense to have the "ultimate" service check be a child of just one such component that makes up the entire web-service (or whatever it might be). > [<rant> Sometimes I wonder whether we should switch logfiles to HTML to > get web developers interested in what they write to them.>:-C</rant>] > An exercise in futility. Teach them regex-fu instead and refuse to add CSS tags until they've made their logmessages regex-searchable in some sane way. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.erics...@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231 Considering the successes of the wars on alcohol, poverty, drugs and terror, I think we should give some serious thought to declaring war on peace. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What Every C/C++ and Fortran developer Should Know! Read this article and learn how Intel has extended the reach of its next-generation tools to help Windows* and Linux* C/C++ and Fortran developers boost performance applications - including clusters. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmay _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
