[Linux-cluster] Email alert

[Lon Hohberger]

On Fri, 2008-10-17 at 08:36 -0500, Jeff Macfarland wrote:
> Mark Chaney wrote:
> > No, but you can use a monitoring service like nagios to do that.
> 
> Is "RIND" (http://sources.redhat.com/cluster/wiki/EventScripting) not 
> applicable? Or, if implemented in <rm/>, will it prevent the system from 
> automated failover of services, etc? I dunno much about slang, but it 
> looks like it at least supports system() for a quick email if nothing else.

Fork/exec during failover needs to be managed carefully.  I haven't
tried system() from within a RIND script.  It should probably work (or,
maybe we should provide an email interface).

-- Lon