[lvs-users] ldirectord email features

[Simon Horman]

On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 02:10:13PM +0100, Malte Geierhos wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Don't you think this is more or less the meaning of having a "bigger" 
> monitoring infrastructur
> like Nagios - to handle such things ?
> For me it sounds like another approach to reinvent the wheel.
> I'd suggest writing a simple nagios check would be a lot easier - there 
> you can even fire up
> actions if necessary such as trigger a failover between your 
> loadbalancers or similar.

For what its worth, I think that these functions are probably reasonable
to include in ldirectord. Though I my initial reaction was also that
it sounds a lot like its going in the direction of a comprehensive
monitoring system.