Hello Eli -
Thanks for your note.
Radar is designed as a NOC monitoring/debug tool to be used interactively on a screen (in fact Radar uses Tk for Perl which uses the native graphics support on the host it is running on). Radar is not designed as a statistics gathering tool, nor as a service management tool.
If you want to collect statistics from Radiator, you should use the StatsLog clause. And if you want a tool to restart Radiator automatically and let you know why it did so, you should use the "restartWrapper" utility provided in the goodies directory for this purpose. See the relevant sections of the Radiator 3.4 reference manual.
I have copied this mail to Mike, as he may have some additional comments.
regards
Hugh
On Tuesday, Dec 10, 2002, at 08:13 Australia/Melbourne, Eli Tovbeyn wrote:
Hi!
I've started to use RADAR recently. Is there a way to run RADAR as a
daemon? If no, then I'm a little bit confused regarding the targets of
this software.
If it's statistics monitor , then why should I run X on in order to
collect statistics? I want to run X only to view it - not to collect the
data.
If it's server availability monitor, then again - why should I run X on
in order to receive mail that my radius is down? And of coarse I
wouldn't run such a software on my desktop - it's server's role. And my
servers never NEVER run X.
In bottom line I think that RADAR should be daemon with GUI. Otherwise
it's loosing a lot of points. Daemon should monitor Radiator's status
and send me an e-mail, not X application. Daemon should collect
statistics while GUI can show the statistics, watch for errors in log
files, but not sending e-mail!
And of coarse another problem : what happens after system restarts at
midnight? No one is logged in into X, no one has started the RADAR. So
my monitoring system is down. Funny.
Again, my letter is written under assumption that RADAR is not a daemon
and can't be run as such.
Your opinions are highly appreciated.
Eli Tovbeyn
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