Re: Feature request: UDP generic protocol testing

[Jan-Henrik Haukeland]

On 25. okt. 2005, at 00.47, Alex Black wrote:

> There are a number of things I'd like to test for using Monit that  
> answer on UDP, for example SIP and IAX (voip protocols).  Could  
> functionality be added so send/expect can be used with UDP sockets  
> as well as TCP stream sockets?

Yes, we seems to need UDP read/write support, I can look into it.

>  Other ideas:
> - Could monit support plugins for tests, making it easy for people  
> to author their own tests?


We have discussed this before and decided against a plugin  
architecture. There are many reasons for this, one is that we want  
monit to be autonomic.

> - As I emailed previously, being able to declare dependencies for  
> monitoring of tests woudl be very helpful... Unless there is  
> already a way to do this that I am missing :)

This is a good idea, one way to achieve this is to scope tests in  
blocks using {}, just like a standard programming language. For example

 if failed test {
    if test
 } else {
    if failed test else if test
 }

What do you think?

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Jan-Henrik Haukeland
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