I almost missed this excellent post on system monitoring by (I think) Yanick Champoux. It’s a clever idea. The monitor has a bunch of TAP1 tests that check various parts of the system – e.g. whether diskspace on a particular partition has breached a certain threshold.
The tests are all run with Smolder, "a web-based continuous integration smoke server". This means that the results can be made available via email, RSS or Smolder’s web interface. Very neat.
It’s indeed Yanick’s blog (good point, I should probably make that point explicit somewhere on the page).
Thanks for the good words. I would never tout it as a robust solution, but I like to think that it’s indeed moderately clever, and a nice educative experiment.
Hi Yanick,
I finally guessed / realised when I checked your list of CPAN modules on the side
I really liked your solution, and this is a new introduction to smolder for me too. Thanks for the post!