[hobbit] Highlights of the 4.3.0 version

Buchan Milne bgmilne at staff.telkomsa.net
Fri Aug 3 08:31:29 CEST 2007


On Tuesday 24 July 2007 22:55:02 Hubbard, Greg L wrote:
> Wonder if there is any way to tell a client what it's status is so it
> can be autonomous?  What I mean is this:  suppose there was a way for
> the Hobbit client to tell the server that service X was now in state Y,
> and a client-side module could then activate response Z on its own?

I don't like band-aids like this.

"restart because it's down" prevents the real impact of problems being seen, 
and provides less motivation for fixing things properly. Instead, you sit 
with frequent short outages (which may avoid the attention of managers, 
production managers) which have end-user impact.

I like even less using a monitoring system to do this ...

Regards,
Buchan



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