Re: POLL - How should we hanlde the case, when DB server is gone away?

Igor Kopman wrote:
> What about special built-in event, like "lost connection to DB" combined
> with 1-st option?

Yes, there are new event added, so you can handle it.

> As another option - generate some built-in critical event and stop all data
> collection, but not the other activity (like event processing and status
> polling) which may still provide some vital functionality. For ex. doing
> some actions on SNMP traps, sending notification, pinging nodes, and so on,
> everything that still can provide some important functionality without
> storing data to database.
> As a real-life example it could be a virtual "watch-dogs" -we check some
> service state, if it is down - we do action: restart the service. In such
> case it is not so important to have data stored in database. Having service
> running is much more important.

So it's like extended #3, we just don't bring the whole system down.
Yes, maybe it's the way to go.
Received on Mon Aug 21 2006 - 13:34:18 EEST