Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan@kaltenbrunner.cc> writes:
> Magnus Hagander wrote:
>> Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote:
>>> well it would be fairly easy to drive such a feed from our nagios
>>> instance (and even extract stuff like scheduled downtime from it) ...
>>
>> Not as sure about that one. Basically, not sure we want to publish the
>> automated stuff there, and Nagios really isn't a nice interface to do
>> edits from...
> hmm well - there is certainly a lot of stuff on nagios that is probably
> not appropriate for fully automatic publishing but we could say use the
> nagios escalation feature for certain services and let that drive the feed.
Automated publication of status data on a public website scares me;
it seems like a great way to invite breakins. (Black hat: "whaddya
know, their DNS server is down, maybe I can inject some bogus info.")
I'm for manual entries only on a public-facing page.
regards, tom lane