On Wed, 4 Feb 2009 15:29:22 -0800 "Tony G" <[email protected]> wrote:
> There are two sides to this: > 1) Monitoring locks > 2) Remote notifications > > As with any process where you have data generation and an > interface with data consumers, separate the components and the > task gets much easier. Nick provided info about how to generate > the data so I'll comment on notifications. > > You can use email or you can popup notifications on the PC of an > admin when something on the server requires attention. I blogged > about this here: > nospamNebula-RnD.com/blog/tech/mv/2008/09/remotecontrol1.html > Note, that talks about remote control (and notifications) as > being a new product offering. Though that was the intent and the > software works well and is very cool, this has not been > productized for lack of interest. Oh well. To do this yourself, > write a program that runs in the tray or as a Windows service. > Ping the server periodically (using your favorite language and > connectivity tools) for data of interest. Report that data back > to the user on the PC with the level of annoyance only > commensurate with the level of urgency. If you want a tool that > already does this, let me know. > > HTH > Tony Gravagno > Nebula Research and Development > TG@ remove.pleaseNebula-RnD.com > We have an underutilized nagios server, so I may try to abstract my lock check into a plugin. Unibasic to handle the lock checking, passing status info back (warn for long locks, critical for queue entries) and let nagios do the notifying. ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
