Hi,
 
First, big fan of pound. I have been running it for about almost a year
after exploring a lot of other options (mod_backhand etc). I use it to
load balance among several apache servers running the same perl website.
It's a lifesaver.
 
Anyway, at some point i was asked why the site was so slow today. Turns
out 1 web server had died! Does anyone do anything clever to alert
themselves via email when pound is skipping over an unresponsive server?
Sorry if there is an obvious solution using pound's log facility.
 
Thanks,
 
Jason Kronstat
 
 

Message    It doesn't seem like that should be in the scope of pound at all.
Using server monitoring software like Netsaint/Nagios to directly check HTTP
services on your backend servers is the best solution for this type of
thing...well IMO ^^

Corey Sharrah
Chief Systems Specialist I
Internet Commerce Group, Inc.

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Jason Kronstat 
  To: pound(at)apsis.ch 
  Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 11:01 AM
  Subject: alerting admin on failover


  Hi,

  First, big fan of pound. I have been running it for about almost a year after
exploring a lot of other options (mod_backhand etc). I use it to load balance
among several apache servers running the same perl website. It's a lifesaver.

  Anyway, at some point i was asked why the site was so slow today. Turns out 1
web server had died! Does anyone do anything clever to alert themselves via
email when pound is skipping over an unresponsive server? Sorry if there is an
obvious solution using pound's log facility.

  Thanks,

  Jason Kronstat

Of course, but Pound should log something, and other monitoring software
or scripts can watch that log to alert an admin.

-jason

On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 11:15:20AM -0700, Corey Sharrah wrote:
> Message    It doesn't seem like that should be in the scope of pound at all.
Using server monitoring software like Netsaint/Nagios to directly check HTTP
services on your backend servers is the best solution for this type of
thing...well IMO ^^
> 
> Corey Sharrah
> Chief Systems Specialist I
> Internet Commerce Group, Inc.
> 
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: Jason Kronstat 
>   To: pound(at)apsis.ch 
>   Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 11:01 AM
>   Subject: alerting admin on failover
> 
> 
>   Hi,
> 
>   First, big fan of pound. I have been running it for about almost a year
after exploring a lot of other options (mod_backhand etc). I use it to load
balance among several apache servers running the same perl website. It's a
lifesaver.
> 
>   Anyway, at some point i was asked why the site was so slow today. Turns out
1 web server had died! Does anyone do anything clever to alert themselves via
email when pound is skipping over an unresponsive server? Sorry if there is an
obvious solution using pound's log facility.
> 
>   Thanks,
> 
>   Jason Kronstat
> 
> 

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After a little more consideration, I realize that because I depend on
pound for failover, that doesn't necessarily mean I need to depend on it
to alert me when a server is down. As Mr. Sharrah pointed out, there are
MANY tools that do that. And Pound's very focused scope is one of it's
main selling points.

Thanks for everyone's input, this mailing list is great.

- Jason
-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Vasquez [mailto:jason(at)obiwan.homelinux.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 4:27 PM
To: pound(at)apsis.ch
Subject: Re: alerting admin on failover


Of course, but Pound should log something, and other monitoring software
or scripts can watch that log to alert an admin.

-jason

On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 11:15:20AM -0700, Corey Sharrah wrote:
> Message    It doesn't seem like that should be in the scope of pound
at all. Using server monitoring software like Netsaint/Nagios to
directly check HTTP services on your backend servers is the best
solution for this type of thing...well IMO ^^
> 
> Corey Sharrah
> Chief Systems Specialist I
> Internet Commerce Group, Inc.
> 
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: Jason Kronstat 
>   To: pound(at)apsis.ch 
>   Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 11:01 AM
>   Subject: alerting admin on failover
> 
> 
>   Hi,
> 
>   First, big fan of pound. I have been running it for about almost a 
> year after exploring a lot of other options (mod_backhand etc). I use 
> it to load balance among several apache servers running the same perl 
> website. It's a lifesaver.
> 
>   Anyway, at some point i was asked why the site was so slow today. 
> Turns out 1 web server had died! Does anyone do anything clever to 
> alert themselves via email when pound is skipping over an unresponsive

> server? Sorry if there is an obvious solution using pound's log 
> facility.
> 
>   Thanks,
> 
>   Jason Kronstat
> 
> 

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