Patrol usage at DESY Zeuthen
presently approximately 100 hosts controlled by patrol
patrol started by cron every 15 minutes
Controlling tasks on all hosts
Execution time monitoring of user processes (except batch)
Presence of important daemons (cron, xntp, syslog, afs, batch, …)
Tasks on selected hosts (usually servers)
File system usage (/, /usr, /tmp, /home, …)
presence of daemons (named, sendmail, …)
Depending on the problem appropriate actions are taken
Observed increased stability of services for users