nathans wrote:
> [...]
> For Linux hosts, crontab entries are automatically installed
> for daily log rotation and checking (both pmlogger & pmie).
Would you considering pushing a random snapshot of dev into fedora
rawhide, so people can experiment with it easier? (We do this with
systemtap, semiautomagically pushing updates weekly.)
> [...] There has also been some concern that having automatically-
> modified/updated configuration files below /etc will cause heartache
> for some sysadmins. [...] Discuss please - offer alternatives,
> patches, discussion, ideas, etc, etc, and lets come up with
> something great.
If it were not too much work, I'd rather see generated files distinct
from hand-made files. Perhaps pmlogger et al. could run pmcpp on its
configuration file (and let the generated one be #include'd), or
search a directory and consume the union of the files there.
> [...] Frank has some [...] ideas about using Avahi to allow pmcd to
> announce itself on a network, such that the next assimilation step
> of automating setup of centralised pmie/logger machines for a local
> network can also be performed! [...]
The idea is small:
- to have running pmcd's announce themselves on the
local net via DNS-SD = avahi = zeroconf
- to have pmlogger or pmlogconf or whatnot tool monitor the DNS-SD
announcements, and create/shutdown new pmlogger instances for them.
Basically, auto-configured network-wide logging on designated central hosts.
- FChE
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