[Zope] zope and nagios

[robert rottermann]

Chris Withers wrote:
> robert rottermann wrote:
>> When you have zope running on top of zeo and stop zeo
>> you still can ask for a page and it will be returned correctly.
>
> We have a zeoup-based plugin that checks for that, lemme know if 
> you're interested and I'll see if I can put it somewhere public.
yes thanks. I am interested
>
>> We run into situations where zope (actually a plone site) does not 
>> respond
>> to user requests. However nagios does not complain.
>
> Huh? That makes no sense... what, exactly, was nagios checking here 
> and what were the user requests?
>
nagios calls the intranet main page and checks if it finds "designed by
redCOR" in the response.
Somehow a "not responding" (vs not running) zope does not trigger the
nagios rule.

thanks
robert