On 6/13/2011 11:38 PM, 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. > > 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". > WOW, I never thought of trying to break it that way. Very nice. :-) > 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? > Yes The multiple mondir support would be a nice feature to have. ( with appropriate file permission checks, don't just make it work Jim. :-) ) Having them fail as opposed to untested would be less confusing. mon could put additional error info into the last_summary or Last detail variables to make troubleshooting easier. The bugs that are known can be fixed. Thanks for finding that one. -- Sincerely, Nathan Gibbs Systems Administrator Christ Media http://www.cmpublishers.com _______________________________________________ mon mailing list mon@linux.kernel.org http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/mon
