Jordan Brown wrote:
> Has anybody given much thought to "active" health monitoring of 
> services, where SMF (either periodically or on demand) performs some 
> service-specific "ping" of the service to determine whether it's healthy?
>
> The idea would be to detect services that are "running", in a process 
> sense, but that have stopped responding.
>   

Solaris Cluster agents :-)

> I may need to implement something like it in SMFlite to compensate for 
> the lack of contracts (which prevents me from doing even "passive" 
> health monitoring), and it'd be nice if whatever I do was coordinated 
> with a long-term true-SMF plan.
>   

Agree 110%.  Not too sure about reinventing Solaris Cluster, though...
 -- richard


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