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Add a bit more detail around checks and clarify some language.

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Ryan Breen 2015-01-29 16:54:36 -05:00
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# Checks
One of the primary roles of the agent is management of system- and application-level health
One of the primary roles of the agent is management of system-level and application-level health
checks. A health check is considered to be application-level if it is associated with a
service. A check is defined in a configuration file or added at runtime over the HTTP interface.
service. If not associated with a service, the check monitors the health of the entire node.
A check is defined in a configuration file or added at runtime over the HTTP interface. Checks
created via the HTTP interface persist across runs of the Consul agent on that node.
There are three different kinds of checks: