On 08/27/2010 03:55 PM, Alex Aminoff wrote: > Hi folks. I need a better monitoring system. I currently use something I > wrote 10 years ago using parts of Spong and other bits. > > I looked at Nagios, which seems to be the most commonly mentioned thing > today. The configuration files are not easily hand-editable. This would > be OK if there were decent tools to spit them out, but a day of hacking > did not find anything simple to install and use. > > What I need is something so simple I could write it myself from scratch > in a couple days if I had a couple days. I don't want SNMP or any sort > of agent on the client to be monitored (in my case I'm monitoring my > customers' machines) - I just want remote network checks: does it ping, > is port 80 responding, that sort of thing. I would like the > configuration file to be as simple as possible: definitely no XML, and > preferably few parentheses. In fact, how about if my config file is DNS? > Start with pinging everything in my domain, if there is an MX record > pointing to it check SNMP, if "www" points to it check port 80. For > exceptions to that general case, have a config file. > > I like BigBrother's config file, but BB's implementation is a snarl of > shell script that does not do a good job of producing transparent error > messages when things are not exactly right. At least for the > non-commercial version, which does not appear to be maintained. And BB > has agents on the clients too. > > Or perhaps I should just run nmap on my network every 10 minutes and > alert me if there is a diff from the previous results. Prone to false > positives I would think. > > - Alex > > > _______________________________________________ > bblisa mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
/me furiously guards my nagios boxes I haven't touched a config file on them in months thanks to puppet, but I always thought the files were easy to deal with anyways. I have heard of perl tools that auto discover and write your configs out. -- Joe McDonagh AIM: YoosingYoonickz IRC: joe-mac on freenode L'ennui est contre-révolutionnaire _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
