Re: [Nagios-devel] Preflight before restart
Posted: Thu Nov 04, 2004 11:04 am
On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 17:16, Jason Martin wrote:
> One vulnerablility I've noticed in Nagios is that restarting via a
> HUP or a external command can be dangerous; if the 'new'
> configuration is broken in any way Nagios will die. It occurs
> to me that it would be very handy if Nagios performed a
> preflight on the new configuration before attempting to load it
> as the 'live' config. That way Nagios won't go down if the new
> config isn't valid.
>
> Thanks,
> -Jason Martin
The default init script that ships with nagios calls a preflight check
when doing a reload before sending a HUP. Seems like a reasonable
solution to me.
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Matthew Kent
http://magoazul.com
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> One vulnerablility I've noticed in Nagios is that restarting via a
> HUP or a external command can be dangerous; if the 'new'
> configuration is broken in any way Nagios will die. It occurs
> to me that it would be very handy if Nagios performed a
> preflight on the new configuration before attempting to load it
> as the 'live' config. That way Nagios won't go down if the new
> config isn't valid.
>
> Thanks,
> -Jason Martin
The default init script that ships with nagios calls a preflight check
when doing a reload before sending a HUP. Seems like a reasonable
solution to me.
--
Matthew Kent
http://magoazul.com
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Original poster: [email protected]