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#ifndef MONIT_STATE_H
#define MONIT_STATE_H


/**
 *  Manage service information persistently. Service data is saved to
 *  a state file when monit runs in daemon mode for each poll
 *  cycle. Monit use this file to recover from a crash or to maintain
 *  service data persistently during a reload. The location of the
 *  state file may be set from the command line or set in the monitrc
 *  file, if not set, the default is ~/.monit.state.
 *
 *  @author Jan-Henrik Haukeland, <hauk@tildeslash.com>
 *  @version \$Id: state.h,v 1.5 2007/07/25 12:54:30 hauk Exp $
 *  @file
 */


/**
 * Save service state information to the state file
 */
void State_save();


/**
 * Check if we should update current services with persistent state
 * information. The logic is as follows: Iff a state file is present
 * *and* older than the running monit daemon's lock file we have had a
 * crash and should update data from the state file.
 * @return TRUE if the state should be updated otherwise FALSE
 */
int State_shouldUpdate();


/**
 * Update the current service list with data from the state file. We
 * do *only* change services found in *both* the monitrc file and in
 * the state file. The algorithm:
 *
 * Assume the control file was changed and a new service (B) was added
 * so the monitrc file now contains the services: A B and C. The
 * running monit daemon only knows the services A and C. Upon restart
 * after a crash the monit daemon first read the monitrc file and
 * creates the service list structure with A B and C. We then read the
 * state file and update the service A and C since they are found in
 * the state file, B is not found in this file and therefore not
 * changed.
 *
 * The same strategy is used if a service was removed, e.g. if the
 * service A was removed from monitrc; when reading the state file,
 * service A is not found in the current service list (the list is
 * always generated from monitrc) and therefore A is simply discarded.
 *
 * Finally, after the monit service state is updated this function
 * writes the new state file.
 */
void State_update();


#endif
