Changes between Version 4 and Version 5 of WatchDog

Timestamp:

Feb 11, 2008, 10:05:43 AM (16 years ago)

Author:

davea

Comment:

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-A '''watchdog''' is a mechanism for detecting system states (e.g. full filesystems, database failures, etc.) that require immediate attention by project staff. Typically the desired response to such a condition is to notify a pager, sending a short text description.
+A '''watchdog''' is a mechanism for detecting system states
+(e.g. full filesystems, database failures, etc.)
+that require immediate attention by project staff.
+Typically the desired response to such a condition is to notify a pager,
+sending a short text description.
 
 BOINC provides a framework for defining watchdogs:
 
- * A set of '''watchdog scripts''' are run from cron. Each script checks for an error condition, and present, it appends a descriptive line to an error log file. An example is '''wd_nresults_changing.php''', which makes sure that the number of results changes.
- * The script '''wd.php''', also run from cron, scans the error log files. If any has been updated since the last run, it sends email to a set of recipients, containing the last line of the file.
+ * A set of '''watchdog scripts''' are run as periodic tasks. Each script checks for an error condition, and present, it appends a descriptive line to an error log file. An example is '''wd_nresults_changing.php''', which makes sure that the number of results changes.
+ * The script '''watchdogs.php''', also run as a periodic task, scans the error log file. If it has been updated since the last run, it sends email to a set of recipients, containing the last line of the file.
 
-These files are in the sched/ directory.
+These files are in the html_ops/ directory.