Default services enabled

[Bill Nottingham]

Jesse Keating (jkeating at j2solutions.net) said: 
> Some of the argument here is that it is difficult to do this from a remote host.  You'd have to engage in remote execution of software, e.g. using nagios nrpe to remotely (from the nagios system) execute commands on the database system to call systemd to check the status of the db.
> 
> This is a shift from previous environments where you could just poke at the network socket from the nagios system and parse the reply.

Sure, but there's nothing that says you *have* to set up your
internet-facing services as socket-activated. (In fact, quite the opposite.)

Bill