[Pkg-monitoring-maintainers] monitoring scripts

[Russell Coker]

The mon and mon-contrib packages have monitor scripts that return 0 when 
everything is ok.  When there is an error they return non-zero and give plain 
text explaining the problem to stdout.  This is such an obvious way to do 
things on a Unix system that surely others have done the same thing.

Do we have a list of packages that have such monitoring scripts?

Should we work towards a common place to store such scripts so that different 
monitoring packages could share them?  I don't want to waste time writing 
scripts to probe IMAP servers etc if someone else has already written them - 
and possibly written them to test for error conditions I haven't thought of 
yet.

https://wiki.debian.org/Mon

At the above Wiki page I've documented the mon configuration directories.  The 
overall mon wiki documentation is still at early stages (it's massively 
inadequate if you want to have a useful working system) but has enough about 
this for a discussion.

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