Re: [Spong-users] check_processes change

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Another idea for you: While going thru it, make a check to see if a proc
is running that should not be. This could be used to check for defunct,
and zombie procs, as well say check for emacs running on a compile server
that you tell people, DONT RUN EMACS AND EAT CPU, but they still do :)


-chris


On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Stephen Carpenter wrote:

> OK, 
> 
> I am just getting started on this, so I have no code yet, but expect a 
> patch to be sent to the list within the next couple of days.
> 
> It is my intention to extend the "jobs" status light to include well,
> batch jobs. Makes sense huh? 
> 
> The main reason for the heads up is, I think the check_processes module
> should be renamed to check_jobs for the following reasons:
> 
> 1) The "status collumn" that it controls in the spong display is called
>    "jobs" - to make "what controlls what" more evident, this makes sense.
> 
> 2) The new checks I am adding make more sense being called "jobs" than 
>    "processes" because we care IF they ran, not whether they are still 
>    running.
> 
> So unless someone objects loudly, I am going to rename my check_processes
> file and all references to that name to check_jobs and will submit those
> changes with my patch, when its ready.
> 
> The basic idea that I have ATM is to make a directory of files. The files
> will have their time stamps checked. If the time stamp is too old, then
> the status goes yellow or red (based on thresholds set in the spong config,
> possibly overrided by the contrnsts of the files? in any case it HAS to be
> setable on a job by job basis)
> 
> Anyway, thats the idea. We really need it here, and I figure it will be
> usefull to anyone else who has periodic jobs running that fail in 
> interesting ways on an irregular basis.
> 
> I am also thinking of abstracting this into a perl module, on the job end, 
> so that its simply "include this perl module and call this couple of wrapper
> routines and it reports the job status to spong" (that way the backend of how
> it works can be changed independantly of all the scripts - of course then
> a couple of perl scripts could serve as command line wrappers so that shell
> scripts can use it too!)
> 
> Ok... I think I have a more solid idea now :) expect code in a couple of days.
> Comments? Suggestions? Flames?
> 
> -Steve
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