There are a lot of people who say, “if it isn’t monitored, then it isn’t a service.” The problem is that I don’t think enough people outside of the systems world believe that or even understand why its said. I think the primary offenders here are developers. It isn’t because they don’t know better, but typically developers just want to get the application up and running and then move on to developing the next thing. I also think there is some fault on the side of the administrators and the managers not insisting that part of the completed version of a project includes monitoring. But I don’t want to harp on this as much as I would like to show just how easy it is to compensate here by taking advantage of Nagios::Plugin.
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Monitoring Services with Nagios::Plugin
7 Apr 2010 — ericCapistrano Hangs on Mac OS X Leopard
5 Apr 2010 — ericI use Capistrano to deploy my webapps and have been for a while. I also deploy right from my laptop quite frequently. So I was a little taken aback when I could deploy in one place and not in another. It turned out that Capistrano was having issues with deploying to multiple servers. In fact, it turned out that the problem had the appearance of being Capistrano, but in actuality, it was Net-SSH. The whole issue can be tracked via the Lighthouse ticket here. I’m going to show you how to diagnose if you have this problem faster and how to fix it.
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