* Chris Hoogendyk wrote: > > > On 1/7/11 4:30 PM, Nathan Gibbs wrote: >> An AMANDA Backup monitor. >> >> Has anyone seen such an animal? > > I'm not sure why you would need it or what it would do. >
Neither do I, but, I thought that about APCUPSD once too. Figured I'd shake the bushes and see what flew out. > Amanda does not run as a daemon. So, there is no issue with the daemon > failing and no longer operating. > But it is reachable over the network, so what could I get mon to do with it? :-) After looking at the protocol docs on their site, there isn't much to do with it. :-( What a hacked up mess! > Amanda runs off cron. Typically, you have amcheck on cron during the day > when people are around to fix things. Then amdump runs off cron during > the night. You get reports by email of problems and reports of the > results of the dump. > Right, I usually check my mon status before I get to email, so the more mon can do the better. > I suppose, if you didn't want to read your reports, you could have > procmail or something route them all to a folder where something like > SEC could scan them and then only generate an alert when there was > something out of the ordinary or a specific problem. But that seems like > a lot of effort to avoid looking at your reports. > > Agreed, way too much work to avoid work. :-) What is SEC? If I'm chasing shadows, I might as well learn something in the process. -- Sincerely, Nathan Gibbs Systems Administrator Christ Media http://www.cmpublishers.com
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