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Re: [Xen-users] What is the best way to determine a domU is running?

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Subject: Re: [Xen-users] What is the best way to determine a domU is running?
From: Andy Smith <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 17:32:38 +0000
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Hi,

On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 09:13:35AM +0200, Dominik Klein wrote:
> I need a healthcheck for my domU.
> 
> Of course I could go "xm list|grep $dom" but that is pretty ugly. I 
> could also ping my domain's IP but that tells me nothing about its state 
> as a Xen domain.
> 
> So what is the suggested way to determine the domain status correctly?

Personally I care more about the services that my domUs are
providing than their state as Xen sees it.  So what is wrong with
monitoring them like you would services on any server, virtualised
or not?

Cheers,
Andy

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