I just had an unsettling experience yesterday. We have our home 
directories nfs mapped from a home disk server. Our version of AMD 
(automount) occasionally barfs for some reason on EL5, and a computer 
can lose it's connection to the home disk server, so the home directory 
becomes unavailable. When this happened, Zenoss just hung. This is 
understandable, what is problematic is there was no alert or anything, 
so I didn't know Zenoss was down for a few hours, when I tried to use 
the web console.

It seems to me there ought to be some sort of failsafe in a monitoring 
system that can tell you if the hosting computer has a problem like this 
- or at least something that can run without the home directory and send 
an alert that Zenoss is down.
--
James Pulver
Information Technology Area Supervisor
LEPP Computer Group
Cornell University

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