On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 03:34:27PM -0700, Ashwin Paranjpe wrote: > ovs-vswitchd and ovsdb-server both support the --monitor option. According > to the man page, --monitor creates an additional monitoring-process to > monitor the daemon. > > How do we monitor the health of the monitoring-process itself? What if it > crashes? > > Since there is no PID file configuration for the monitoring-process, it is > not possible to fetch its PID (short of parsing the ps output). This makes > monitoring the monitoring-process using a tool like Monit challenging. > > Has anyone figured out a clean way to detect failure/crash of the > monitoring-process and restart it, or some way to configure the PID file > location?
If you want to monitor and restart OVS with something else, just don't use --monitor. _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
