[Pacemaker] System Health backend part

[Andrew Beekhof]

Do you think this should live in pacemaker or with the RAs?
I'm inclined to think the latter but am open to persuasion.

On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 1:26 AM, Mark Hamzy <hamzy at us.ibm.com> wrote:
> I would like to see a complete solution for system health shipped with
> pacemaker. Would you be opposed to including the backend parts that monitor
> system health into pacemaker such as daemons or command line programs?
>
> One of the ways to determine the health of a system is to listen to IPMI
> events. I took source code from http://ipmitool.sourceforge.net/ and
> modified it. src/ipmievd.c is a daemon which listens to IPMI events and
> writes out information about the event to syslog. I modified ipmievd to
> instead write the raw IPMI event information to a database. The database is
> part of the servicelog package (
> http://linux-diag.sourceforge.net/servicelog/ ). You can configure
> servicelog to run a program when a database entry matches certain criteria.
> This program then converts the IPMI event to a health color
> (red/yellow/green) and execs attrd_updater (ex: attrd_updater -n
> '#health-ipmi' -v 'yellow' ).
>
> There are two files which I would like to be included. Let's start with the
> easiest first.
>
> 1) notifyServicelogEvent.c
>
> This program is executed by servicelog when a database entry matches certain
> criteria. It is entirely self-contained.
>
> 2) src/ipmiservicelogd.c
>
> This program was copied from src/ipmievd.c. Instead of writing to syslog, it
> writes to servicelog. Unfortunately, ipmitools does not export its header
> files or libraries as part of a public interface and seperate RPM (like
> ipmitool-devel). Could we copy over enough files to compile
> ipmiservicelogd.c?
>
> Mark
>
> Common Information Model/Web-Based Enterprise Management at
> http://www.openpegasus.org/
> Take a look at the Linux Omni Printer Driver Framework at
> http://omniprint.sourceforge.net/
>
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