[Xymon] Just wondering if I'm the only one who's done this

[Ryan Novosielski]

This is my feeling on this. It’s your business, but no service should need automatic restarting enough to make that an attractive option.

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> On Sep 1, 2016, at 08:42, Richard Hamilton <rlhamil2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> It's a useful enough possibility...and we all use workarounds from time to time.  But as time permits, the real cause of the problem should be found and fixed; and workarounds should not become permanent.  I'd worry that a monitoring tool being used to implement workarounds could make that too tempting.
> 
> 
> On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 8:01 AM, Henrik Størner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote:
> Den 01-09-2016 07:33, Bruce Ferrell skrev:
> I've never ever seen it written up, and I've been a user since the
> days when xymon was BigBrother (yes, I know they aren't common code...
> xymon IS the spiritual descendant however)
> 
> Recently, I started monitoring a remote service that was failing
> regularly.  It would send me an alert and I'd go fix the service.  I
> got tired of having to do the restarts so I
> looked a bit more into alerts.cfg.  Yes, I can send an alert via a
> script (do that all the time for sms)... Wait... Can that script do
> anything else?  Well, I'll be!  I wrote one
> to ssh into the offending system (key based authentication) and
> perform simple diags, collects relevant logs then restart the downed
> service.
> 
> I have seen a number of times, "xymon/bigbrother doesn't restart things".
> 
> Thoughts?  Concerns?
> 
> Sure, you can do that if it suits your way of working. And I can certainly see why it would be nice to avoid restarting the same service again and again.
> 
> The reason that Xymon doesn't do that "out of the box" is this: Xymon has always been a "watch, but don't act" tool. And that is an inheritance from the Big Brother days.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Henrik
> 
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