Re: [xymon] Feature? svcs

[Vernon Everett <everett.vernon (at) gmail.com>]

When it's done, I'll send you the finished product, and we can discuss it
then.
And there is no way I can take all the credit - without you doing your
version, I wouldn't have bothered with mine :-)

Cheers
    Vernon


On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 11:23 PM, Ward, Martin <Martin.Ward (at) colt.net> wrote:

>  You sure you want to rename it? I mean it does exactly the same thing,
> monitoring the SMF, so I have no problems with you simply overwriting my
> version and taking all the credit.
>
>
>
> Actually, I do wonder if it shouldn't report back under the svcs column, or
> is it considered bad form to have two different forms of data under the same
> column heading (I do it already. I have a column called raid. For some Sun
> servers it reports on metastat(1m) and on others it reports on zfs(1m)
> output).
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> *From:* Vernon Everett [mailto:everett.vernon (at) gmail.com]
> *Sent:* 30 July 2010 12:43
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> *To:* xymon (at) xymon.com
> *Subject:* Re: [xymon] Feature? svcs
>
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>
> Hi Martin
>
>
> Gave it a try this arvo, and it looks good.
> Then came the comments from my colleagues.
> The comments were all good, but they wanted more. (Don't they always)
>
> One of the features what the ability to monitor a service to ensure it was
> disabled, and go red if it was enabled.
>
> So, I started adding some features to your code. I thought I would do a
> put-back as version 2.0
> But it's slowly becoming very different.
> Besides the feature above, it takes one service per line in
> client-local.cfg and it's in ksh now. (I just prefer ksh over sh)
>
> Once it's done, I will put it onto Xymonton as smf2 or something similar.
> It's going to be different enough to warrant a new name.
>
> Cheers
>     Vernon
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