My personal opinion is that having Hobbit (or Big Brother) take action other than sending an alert goes beyond the scope of what it is intended for...as a monitoring system. I had thought about the same thing at one point, but was talked out of it.

I would tend to agree myself, except 1) some people are asking about such functionality, and 2) it would be nice during oncall weeks to not have to get up and restart processes such as procallator, etc.

I would be interested in hearing what talked you out of this, however. If nothing else, I can use it to talk other people out of it ;-)

-----Original Message----- From: Gary B. [mailto:gmbfly98 at gmail.com] Sent: Friday, July 21, 2006 9:22 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] bbfix functionality in hobbit

Is there any method with hobbit to have the client automatically restart services, like bbfix does for BB? We would like to be able to restart services that tend to fail often (such as SSH tunnels) automatically through Hobbit. Without writing a custom external script, I can't seem to find any information about doing this.

Thanks

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