Default services enabled

Simo Sorce simo at redhat.com
Wed Aug 24 18:31:12 UTC 2011


On Wed, 2011-08-24 at 20:19 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> On Wed, 24.08.11 10:10, Jesse Keating (jkeating at j2solutions.net) wrote:
> 
> > >> FWIW, I do think that there may be use-cases for socket activation of a
> > >> database.  I'd like to support the option ... the problem is to do so
> > >> without breaking existing, expected behaviors.
> > > 
> > > It was noted up-thread that systemd can tell you whether the underlying
> > > daemon is running or not, though I guess that doesn't tell you whether
> > > it's entirely in a functional state. You could do a two-stage thing:
> > > check with systemd whether the daemon is running, and ping it if so?
> > 
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> systemctl actually knows the -H switch to access remote systems (via
> ssh), but this needs a patch to dbus to actually work which I still
> haven't found time to ultimately clean up for proper inclusion.

Monitoring system generally do not have (nor should have) ssh access to
other servers.

Simo.

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