I've been having trouble using the CVS mirror in Spain. Using Windows it is a bit of a challenge to change mirrors. Knowing that the service is temporarily down would be helpful but where does one look? I began thinking that it would be helpful if there were a similar page like on SourceForge that shows the current status of various aspects of the system for Moodle (including the CVS mirrors). It could be a first place to check to see if there are known problems with one of the Moodle services. Does anything like this exist? Would it be practical/useful to implement?
In reply to Anthony Borrow
Re: Moodle documentation: Moodle Services Status Page
by Martín Langhoff -
MartinD talked recenlt of a mailing list, but perhaps you're onto something. A wikipage with status updates in a table...
In reply to Anthony Borrow
Re: Moodle documentation: Moodle Services Status Page
by Martin Dougiamas -
We really need to get a Nagios page up
http://nagios.org/about/screenshots.php
just trying to find the time .... volunteers?
There is this mailing list for status updates but it does rely on people mailing to it which makes it effectively useless.
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/moodle-outage
http://nagios.org/about/screenshots.php
just trying to find the time .... volunteers?
There is this mailing list for status updates but it does rely on people mailing to it which makes it effectively useless.
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/moodle-outage
Ups! This is the first notice I have about it. I'm the admin of the CVS mirror in Spain, so if you could tell me what kind of trouble you are having, I'll have a look into it.
Saludos. Iñaki.
Edit: It seems there has been an intermittent connectivity problem somewhere at the NOC affecting the subnet where the mirror is located[1]; I just administer the machine, but don't have any access to the NOC, so unless they notify me I can't even notice. I'm really sorry for this. Everything should be back to normal by now
[1] Oddly enough, the machine had normal connectivity to the outside (has kept syncing with SF as usual), it was some kind of input connections problem.
Saludos. Iñaki.
Edit: It seems there has been an intermittent connectivity problem somewhere at the NOC affecting the subnet where the mirror is located[1]; I just administer the machine, but don't have any access to the NOC, so unless they notify me I can't even notice. I'm really sorry for this. Everything should be back to normal by now
[1] Oddly enough, the machine had normal connectivity to the outside (has kept syncing with SF as usual), it was some kind of input connections problem.
the machine [...] has kept syncing with SF as usual.
Well, sort of. Given that SF CVS was out of order (see MartinD's post about it) it kept connecting and getting 'too many open files' all night long.
Saludos. Iñaki.
Iñaki - Thanks for the update. Should the docs for CVS be updated with instructions for how and where to report problems to for each of the mirrors. I like Martin's idea about Nagios but am not sure what is involved in getting it setup. I may play with setting it up on our test server to learn more about it. Peace.
I've just added contact information for our server. I've added a couple of email addresses, just in case the university one is unavailable (it uses the same line than the server itself).
Saludos. Iñaki.
Saludos. Iñaki.