[Users] How can I make a VM "immortal"?

[lofyer]

On 09/24/13 19:57, René Koch (ovido) wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-09-24 at 08:44 +0800, lofyer wrote:
>> On 2013/9/24 6:03, Itamar Heim wrote:
>>> On 09/23/2013 06:18 PM, lofyer wrote:
>>>> Besides assigning a watchdog device to it, are there any other ways to
>>>> make the VM autostart even if an user shutdown it manually?
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>>> if a user shut down a vm from inside or via engine?
>>> i suggest an external script on engine monitoring its status and 
>>> starting it for such a use case
>> You mean a anacrontab script?
>
> You can for example use Nagios/Icinga with the event handler
> functionality. When your vm is down, Nagios/Icinga can start it again
> via an event handler script (which will use Pyhton SDK or REST-API to
> start the vm).
>
>
> Regards,
> René
>
>
> PS: Had some mail/dns issues today, so maybe some mails with suggestions
> are missing on my side...
>
>
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That's interesting, I'll have a try later since I never use
nagios/icinga before.
For now I'm using a anacrontab scripts that start the "down" vms every
10 minutes.