Monit and NetReg at CPLUG
Tonight’s CPLUG meeting topics were Monit and NetReg.
I did the Monit talk and, as far as I could tell, it went pretty well. People seemed to be fairly interested and there were some really good questions/discussion afterward. If you are interested, my presentation slides for my talk are online.
Jason Long covered NetReg which is basically a set of Perl scripts that coordinate your DHCP server with Apache to create a captive portal. Really interesting stuff.
Overall, it was a good meeting.
Update: One of this issues brought up was how to monitor Monit (i.e quis custodiet ipsos custodes?). Jason suggested running Monit from inittab/inetd, which seemed like a decent idea… and one that I was pretty sure I had seen mentioned before. As it turns out, that issue is covered in the Monit FAQ under Question 7.
Monitoring monit…TOO FAR!
There was some discussion of running multiple Monit instances on multiple boxes all set to monitor each other via their frontend HTTP interfaces. Crazy! :)