Ok, more banter ... we should probably go off list if this goes on any
more (it's not really ruby chatter any more :-)

On 30/08/11 14:40, Dmytrii Nagirniak wrote:
>
>     We haven't used monit, but it looks to me like it's more of a
>     solution that will try to "solve" the failure i.e. restart
>     apache/postgres if the system goes away.
>
>
> I think the main purpose of monit is to monitor and take an action.
> The action can be "solving" the issues as well as sending
> notifications and waking up stuff.

Sure, like I said, I'm not an expert on monit and if you can get it
working. Awesome.

Nagios has a relatively shiny GUI which allows you to selectively
downtime checks etc and all that.

>
>  
>
>     This is fine but what if _this_ (i.e. the monit script) process fails?
>
>
> It looks like guys already thought about that. So it it should be
> handled pretty well.
> http://mmonit.com/wiki/Monit/FAQ#init

Once again, looks good. What about if it jams after having init-ed ?

Still, there ain't no perfect solution to this. We just happen to have a
lot of experience (from trial and lots of error) with our approach.

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