David Bustos wrote: > Quoth Jordan Brown on Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 09:56:01AM -0700: >> 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. > > Yes, these are known as "monitors". They have not been implemented, > though parts of the SMF design allow for them. (In particular, the > "degraded" state.) I seem to recall that they have been discussed on > this alias in the past, but am not sure.
Has any design been done for them, or are they still in the "maybe someday we should do something like this" state?
