Liane Praza wrote: > Dale Ghent wrote: > >> I was thinking this morning about SMF and realized that it lacks a >> feature to export alerts or service state changes outside of the >> system. Such a mechanism would be useful in order to alert a NMS that >> a service has gone offline, online, or is in maintenance. >> > > Totally agreed. We've called this "Transitions", and while I put some > of the plumbing into svc.startd to make it easier a while ago, we > haven't managed to actually staff this work yet. Transitions would > allow you to select between an SNMP trap, email notification, or simple > execution of a shell script on a specified state transition. > > (The only real tricky part is the configuration of messages. Some sites > may not want notification of all transitions for all services. An easy > an flexible way to describe the desired policy is important. The rest > is a fairly straightforward fault-tolerant coding exercise.) >
Couldn't we leverage syseventd? It seems to me that it would be better than writing all of that stuff into SMF. -- richard -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/smf-discuss/attachments/20080617/a94b08e7/attachment.html>
