Disable checking but keep in OK state

[Hari Sekhon]

Mark Clarkson wrote:
> On Tue, 13 May 2008 14:50:45 +0100, Hari Sekhon <hpsekhon at googlemail.com>
> wrote:
>   
>> If these services are dynamic, then how do you know which server to
>> connect to, do you have them DNS aliased or something, or perhaps you
>> just try all of the servers until you find one running and use that?
>>     
>
> Sorry, I didn't mean dynamic ip or dhcp. The ip addresses are fixed.
>
>   
>> Just a stab in the dark given the limited info. Disabling service checks
>> manually doesn't sound like a good idea if these services really are
>> dynamic... you'd have to do this manually a lot?
>>     
>
> When the servers are initially started the administrator decides what
> services will run on each host and the load balancer figures out
> where those services are running somehow.
>
> The administrator runs startup scripts to start one or more [java]
> services on each machine.
>
> I plan to modify the scripts to remotely disable active service checks
> and send a passive check result. I'll be doing this using ssh.
>
> Sound sensible?
>   
Yes that sounds fine. One question, have you considered testing the 
services through the load balancer since this is what the users will see?

-h

-- 
Hari Sekhon


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