Carolyn Beeton wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [email protected] 
>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf 
>> Of Mark Gertsvolf (JIRA)
>> Sent: Thursday, July 02, 2009 11:27 PM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: [SFtrack] Updated: (XX-6051) sipXsupervisor to alert 
>> admin whensystem services can not start
>>
>>
> http://track.sipfoundry.org/browse/XX-6051?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugi
> n.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel 
>>     Description: 
>> At the moment if a service fails to start due to a 
>> precondition not being met sipXsupervisor does not proide a 
>> visual indication and does not raise an alarm. Admin has to 
>> visit services page to find out that one or more services 
>> fail to start. At the same time there is a visual indication 
>> on multiple pages when one or more services needs to be 
>> restarted or when one of the jobs fail or when updates are 
>> available. There should be a similar visual indication 
>> telling the admin that one or more services can not run due 
>> to configuration or another issue.
>>
>> At the same time due to unpredictable nature of component 
>> restarts/failures it would be very helpful if an alarm is 
>> raised when such service failure occurs. At the moment an 
>> alarm is raised if component fail and restarts, but there is 
>> no alarm when component can not start after an admin 
>> initiated restar
>>
>> See http://list.sipfoundry.org/archive/sipx-dev/msg18582.html 
>> for an illustration.
>>
> 
> This is asking for two quite separate things:
> 
> 1) visual indication of non-running service.
>      This would be a config server feature: any Enabled service which is
> not in Running should cause a message to be displayed on each page with
> a link to the Services page.  After restarting a service, the config
> server would have to follow its status until it reaches Running or a
> failure state.
> 
> 2) alarm on any service which does not get to Running.
>      This is a supervisor feature: raise alarm on entry to states
> ConfigurationMismatch, ResourceRequired, and ConfigTestFailed.
> 
> I think two JIRAs are warranted, assuming that we have agreement on both
> these requirements.
> 

I agree: it should be split in 2 issues...
But to make it useful (and less annoying) sipXconfig should allow admin to
acknowledge alarms. Otherwise we will drive admins mad with constant nagging.
I created an issue for the 'display' part:
http://track.sipfoundry.org/browse/XX-6069
Feel free to add comments or change something.
D.

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