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Re: Using monit to monitor hundreds of thousands of file system resource


From: Martin Schröder
Subject: Re: Using monit to monitor hundreds of thousands of file system resources?
Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2007 16:37:05 +0200

2007/9/1, Sergio Trejo <address@hidden>:
> I've never tried out tripwire, but why couldn't monit be evolved to the next
> level of evolution such that it could be just as good at scaling to hundreds
> of thousands of file system resources for monitoring purposes?

Tripwire exists, so don't reinvent it. And don't forget Occam's razor
applied to Unix: Each program should perform one function very well,
and not more. Monit's function is foremost monitoring processes, not
checking a myriad of files.

Best
   Martin




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