Default services enabled

[Jesse Keating]

On Aug 24, 2011, at 11:19 AM, 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.
> 
> Lennart


That would require your nagios (or other monitoring) system to be running systemd, which may not be the case for quite a while :)

- jlk