On Mon, 13 Jun 2011, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
I just ran into some confuson. I misunderstood the "mondir" setting in a configuration, and presumed that it mon would search *all* the listed directories for a specific monitor. The result was that I tried stashing them, for separation from default monitors, in their own directory.
so if you have mondir which is a colon-separated list of directories, and a service definition specifies, say, "ping.monitor", it will search each of those directories for a ping.monitor and use the first one it finds. what was the behavior you were expecting? i don't understand.
It didn't work: not a huge surprise. What confused me was that the missing monitors were simply "Untested", as opposed to being reported "Missing". or "Unavailable". Would it seem appropriate and reasonable to report missing minotirs as "Missing", to help avoid confusion during restarts or confusion about monitors being unavailable from some NFS shared resource?
it does syslog that there's a problem with the config, i.e. it cannot find the monitor for a particular service, but nothing that would show up on the web page output or indicated via the client protocol. making a new state to indicate a config-related problem for a particular service is a good idea. there are a few different errors which could be indicated through that mechanism, beyond not finding the monitor in the mondir path. _______________________________________________ mon mailing list mon@linux.kernel.org http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/mon
