Re: [Nagios-devel] RFC/RFP: Service parents

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Re: [Nagios-devel] RFC/RFP: Service parents

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On 05/18/2011 12:09 PM, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> A service that returns OK when its parent has returned non-OK is
> obviously misconfigured (since it really shouldn't be ok with a non-OK
> parent)

Probably just a tangent, but I strongly disagree with this statement.
You *don't* want to try and parse a complex web page for the
marketing-dpt-configurable, non-User-Experience-disrupting error message
du jour when you can just check the handful data-providing backend
services directly via their well-defined interfaces.

[ Sometimes I wonder whether we should switch logfiles to HTML to
get web developers interested in what they write to them. >:-C ]

Kind regards,
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