Christopher DeMarco wanted us to know:
>> In a paragraph, can you explain how either of these provide more or
>> less advantage than ldirectord (built in to heartbeat)?
>I'm not running heartbeat at the site in question, and wasn't thrilled
>about setting it up between the director and two realservers. More
I wasn't real thrilled about having to install heartbeat to get
ldirectord either. There's that thing about installing services that
I won't be using that makes me nervous (though heartbeat may be used in
the future).
>importantly, Mon is generalizable to an org-wide monitoring system
>(which heartbeat is not). Mon has a wider range of service check
>scripts and alerts than ldirectord has and is therefore more flexible.
I do like that.
>If somebody wanted to monitor ipvs but take action ONLY by alpha pager
>(i.e. *not* modifying ipvs) then Mon would be more appropriate than
>ldirectord.
I can see where that would be useful.
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Regards... Todd
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