::On Tuesday 29 June 2004 06:46 pm, Brian Gerard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ::Hi all- :: ::I'm about to start a project that goes a little something like this... :: ::Right now, alerts get automatically emailed to a central address which due ::to the volume is largely ignored. You know the drill: "Ooo! It would be ::great if we got notified when resource X is running low! Then we could ::anticipate the need for it and get ahead of the game." Repeat for :: resources A-Z, AA-ZZ, etc, etc and you get a mailbox that quickly becomes :: filled with alerts that no one reads, largely due to the fact that the :: reading alone would be a full time job. We can receive anywhere from a :: couple of hundred to a couple of thousand of these per day. ::
There's an open-source package out there called Nagios (www.nagios.org) which sounds like what your trying to accomplish. Nagios is written mostly in C (IIRC) and supports many different plugins (written in perl or C). -rak -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
