[Gllug] open-source workflow / process software?

[tid]

[slightly off-topic - sorry]

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?

Tid
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