[Gllug] open-source workflow / process software?

[Simon Wilcox]

On 31/3/10 23:17, tid wrote:
> I have a friend who is looking for some sort of software that can flag
> up events happening / happening at certain times or within certain
> constraints. He has a group of operators (!) looking after a selection
> of solaris/unix boxes and, gasp, openVMS. They need to get
> notification when a particular job hasn't arrived or hasn't completed.
> The likes of nagios / snmp-trap software don't feel right for this
> scenario as some of the tasks that come in aren't necessarily computer
> events, and he'd like something that could deal with an escalation
> procedure that adapts on a regular (potentially daily) basis. The
> scenario he sites is where a trade feed from an exchange runs too slow
> for 4 minutes then reboot the daemon, or if slow for 30 minutes then
> flag up that someone should phone the client.
> 
> Currently, the operations team works off multiple check sheets, which
> is apparently error prone and fiddly. He's really looking anything
> that does process-flow - does anyone know of such an beast?

I came across Monit on my travels the other day. I haven't used it but 
it might do part of what you need in terms of restarting processes etc.

http://mmonit.com/monit/

Simon.
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