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SHIP'S LOG: THE BOGART DEADMAN ARCHITECTURAL PIVOT
If Titan goes down, Bogart should know. But if the network is flaky, we shouldn't kill the services just because of a hiccup. Today we installed a literal picket line: the Bogart Deadman.
THE WATCHER
We dropped /boot/config/custom/bogart-deadman.sh onto MasaiMara. It’s an always-running Unraid host watcher that doesn't mess around. It pings Titan (192.168.50.100) every 15 seconds.
The policy is deterministic:
- 3 Failures: Disable BOgart WebUI.
- 2 Successes: Re-enable Bogart WebUI.
SURGICAL DISABLES
This isn't a blunt instrument. We aren't nuking the server. We’re controlling only the WebUI services—nginx and php-fpm. The heavy lifting—rtorrent.—stays up. If the management plane is gone, we don