On Thu, Apr 03, 2008, Olivier Fournier wrote: >Hello everyone > >I need your experience in service supervision. At the >moment, we are using OpenPKG under both Solaris 10 and >RHEL5. We are now looking for a standard way to >supervise our daemons and services under these two >platforms. Till now we had following approach: >everytime we had to install and configure a new >service, we chose a one-time solution for the service >supervision... It means that, at the moment, we are >fighting with at least tree different approaches: > >- Solaris Management Facility (SMF), only applicable >under Solaris. To use this solution, we need to modify >the OpenPKG rc scripts of the service to tell OpenPKG >to not take care of this service anymore, which is not >so clean >- Daemontools, for specific services such as djbdns >- Runit, for OpenVPN and other things > >My question is following: what kind of service >supervision are you using in your infrastructure? I am >aware that there is no perfect solution, but my goal >is to define a standard approach for well known >services. We will always find exceptions, but we will >handle them separately.
We have been using DJB's daemontools for years. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820 Fax: (206) 232-9186 "If taxation without consent is not robbery, then any band of robbers have only to declare themselves a government, and all their robberies are legalized." -- Lysander Spooner, Letter to Grover Cleveland 1886 ______________________________________________________________________ OpenPKG http://openpkg.org User Communication List openpkg-users@openpkg.org
