Nagios plugin?

Mark Smith smitty at gmail.com
Wed May 7 19:48:55 UTC 2008


> I haven't really looked at the MogileFS code too much, but I wasn't sure if
> having one tracker down out of three would cause any problems.  We're using
> an older PHP class that somebody submitted to PEAR a long time ago and I'm
> pretty sure that it takes the string of trackers and randomly selects one
> and then contacts Mogile.  If this is the case then one bad tracker could
> cause problems.  I could also be wrong with that and it might hand off the
> tracker selection to Mogile where it will skip down trackers and move on.
> Again, I'm not sure if Mogile does this for you or not.

It's supposed to be tracker agnostic.  If one fails, use a different
one.  The client library should handle that for you, but if you're
using an old one, it might not.  Worth doing some testing so you know
how your application will handle it.

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Mark Smith / xb95
smitty at gmail.com


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