Daily/weekly/monthly output aggregation

[Marty Landman]

At 03:41 PM 11/17/2003, Kurt Jaeger wrote:

>We plan to replace the mailed output by centrally collecting the
>results and defining some sort of "needs action" output.

As a developer I'd like to throw my 2 cents in; although this stmt may come 
as no news to anyone else imho the issue is what to parse out as 
significant. With the underlined caveat that once you make (what's in 
essence then) a policy decision about what system output is significant 
enough to pass along to the admin as worthy of review the danger is in 
everything that /isn't/ passed along.

At least now you've got the gnawing feeling that you're behind in reading 
the stuff; once you implement a system to decide what's worth reading 
you've gotten rid of that guilt pang. Should that evolve into a sense of 
false security - well I can only speculate how many server crashes could've 
been avoided if not for feelings of false security.

I have my own thoughts about how something like this could be done, but 
it's based more on my experience as a developer than as a sysadmin, and tbh 
I have no experience as an isp owner.


Marty Landman   Face 2 Interface Inc 845-679-9387
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