Hi John As usual thank you very much for your quick reply.
On Jun 4, 5:29 pm, "John Mettraux" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 9:15 AM, OpenWFEFan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi John > > > I am thinking of evaluating OpenWFEru for SNMP handling. One of our > > requirements is > > > Event A occurs and Event B occurs within 40 seconds then run script > > xyz. > > > a) Is OpenWFEru suitable for this? > > b) what is your recommendation on implementing such a functionality if > > OpenWFEru is suitable? > > > I was thinking of somehow using the timeout option in the participant, > > but I am not sure how the work item can be scheduled depending on > > whether Event B occurs within 40 seconds. > > Hello Kumar, > > Maybe OpenWFEru is a bit too much for this. Maybe so. > > > Event A occurs and Event B occurs within 40 seconds then run script > > xyz. > > It feels like you don't need a workflow engine for this requirement, > just write a SNMP script that traps events and runs the script. We also thought so initially and used a nagios plugin exactly for that purpose... But ran into issues as I will explain below. > > "within 40 seconds" feels to me like "as soon as possible", hence no > need for a timeout. Well not really. I should have mentioned in the use case that if Event B does not occur within 40 secs script zzz should be run instead of xyz. My feeling is that what started out simple as if Event A then run script now requires more intelligence. Our scripts could get complicated as time goes by and I am afraid that we might have a spaghetti soup pretty soon. Initially I was wondering whether only the scheduler component can be used for this, if so it would be great I think. OpenWFEru by itself can be used for if Event A occurs, execute script a (participant A) and script b (part. B) whose output is checked by script c, so on and so forth. So your thoughts again would be most helpful to me. Thanks Kumar > > Of course, it's always possible to let the SNMP agent / trapping > script launch a business process in OpenWFEru. > > I hope this helps, best regards, > > -- > John Mettraux -http://jmettraux.wordpress.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OpenWFEru users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/openwferu-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
