Comment 7 for bug 435886
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| Tom Haddon (mthaddon) wrote Re: Need a way to monitor mailman via nagios | #7 |
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It's an interesting one this... So it helps us to monitor the process to some extent for regular usage, but it doesn't allow us to use it as part of a deployment. The reason is that we need to be able to stop a service, verify it's down, and then restart it with new code and verify it's up. If we're just looking for an entry in a logfile within a certain interval this has no connection to whether the process is still running or not. For example, it heartbeats every 1 minute, so we have a check that says "has it made a heartbeat entry in the logfile within the last minute" - for this to work in a deployment scenario we'd have to then wait at least a minute before we could tell if the service was down, and wait again another minute to verify it's up again.