This could be setup fairly easily. The only problem I see is with getting all these rules into mon on a potentially dynamic basis to get the "FreeNote" kind of use you are talking about. If it were a static membership, the following rules would do it, assuming the alert, upalert, and monitor just add failures from nodes, remove them, and look for them in a flat file.
These will have me and nate looking a hotmail for failures, if either of us sees one, we trap to the master server, and it alerts hotmail if both of us are in a fail state. hostgroup webserversforyahoo a.c.b.d hostgroup hotmailservers e.f.g.h watch hotmailservers-from-tom service fail period wd {Sun-Sat} alert add-group-to-file.alert upalert remove-group-from-file.alert numalerts 1 alertafter 2 watch hotmailservers-from-nate service fail period wd {Sun-Sat} alert add-group-to-file.alert upalert remove-group-from-file.alert numalerts 1 alertafter 2 watch hotmailservers service itsdown interval 5m monitor are-all-in-file.monitor nate tom period wd {Sun-Sat} alert qpage.alert hotmail numalerts 1 alertafter 2 -Tom Scanlan Network Operations OpenReach, Inc. On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, Nate Campi wrote: > It occurred to me that several of us with Mon installations on different > networks with different providers could all band together and monitor > one another. > > Traps from failed monitors would go upstream to a central box, a sort of > collector for all the spread out Mon installs, maybe to two for > redundancy. > > Rules could be setup to only alert when a threshold is hit, perhaps so > that several monitors have to agree that a test failed before it sends > out a page/email/whatever. The possibilities for alerting are flexible > with Mon, that's just one example. > > Basically I'm thinking of a "poor man's Keynote", or a "FreeNote" > service that members donate a Mon install to in order to join. Lots of > details would need to be worked out to implement it, most of which > aren't appropriate to actually discuss on a general Mon mailing list. > > I'm really just curious if people see some potential in my cooky idea. > Well, do you? > -- > Cahn's Axiom: When all else fails, read the instructions. > > _______________________________________________ mon mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/mon