OT totally but is this the automate you mean?: http://www.networkautomation.com/automate/7/
(Mostly so I can avoid it). -- James Pulver Information Technology Area Supervisor LEPP Computer Group Cornell University NickH wrote, On 7/24/2009 6:13 PM: > cluther: Thanks for that information! That is a fantastic way of doing > things, so simple... Not much of a surprise for ZenOSS, I guess. I'll give > that a shot soon. > > In the mean time, I figured out a little hack that serves as a watchdog > timer. I created a small python script on the Automate box that opens a TCP > port for five minutes, then closes it. This task runs in Automate once every > five minutes, and ZenOSS can monitor that port as a service, and alert if it > is ever down. > > ... I'm excited to rip it out and use the built-in heartbeat mechanism > though. > > Ewall: Regarding Automate6 and the specific problems I'm experiencing... > Event log monitoring is a great idea, and I'd agree that with Automate you > can usually beef up tasks to be more robust against failure. > > However, our problem is frustrating because it's impossible to reproduce, > sporadic, and entirely stops task execution and logging. Automate6's terminal > emulation has ... issues. SSH access is amazingly slow, and the bug we're > experiencing (terminal sessions tasks stop responding, despite the TCP > connection staying up, freezing ALL task execution, never timing out) has > been impossible to troubleshoot. > > To me, it feels like Network Automation purchased an old moldy terminal > emulation DLL from a third-party, and really can't improve it. The SSH speed > bug has been pushed back from being fixed in Automate7 to being targeted for > Automate8. The Automate forums are full of similar complaints about sftp > performance, dating back to Automate5(!). > > The terminal emulation feature is so fragile, that you can yank the network > cord on the workstation, terminating the TCP connection, and the error isn't > even propagated up to running task. > > ... anyways: thank you all for your help, I'll try to get that heartbeat > trick documented somewhere, it's so simple and non-obvious. > > > > > -------------------- m2f -------------------- > > Read this topic online here: > http://forums.zenoss.com/viewtopic.php?p=37288#37288 > > -------------------- m2f -------------------- > > > > _______________________________________________ > zenoss-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.zenoss.org/mailman/listinfo/zenoss-users _______________________________________________ zenoss-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zenoss.org/mailman/listinfo/zenoss-users
