On Aug 24, 2011, at 12:49 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote:
Jesse Keating (jkeating(a)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
oh of course not. I was just trying to shed light on where some of the argument was
coming from.
- jlk