At 12:38 14/02/01 -0800, ragu nandan wrote:
>Hi
>
> We use a commercial software called Whatsup Gold (
> <http://ipswitch.com/>http://ipswitch.com/Product/Whatsup) for monitoring
> our routers, unix and NT machines. It will notify the sys admins by
> pager/email/telephone if one of them were to go down ( I mean the
> machine). Offlate we are getting lots of false alarms etc. Wonder whether
> there is a more powerful, reliable commercial or freeware tool to do the
> same job. Our requirement will be to alert thro pager or cell. Thx in advance.
As of today, there is no technical solution that determines when an alarm
is to be sent. The only available
things are to ask the admin if some "coded" event should trigger an alarm
or not. given the cost of
pager/telephone alarms, this should be restricted to events that should
never happen. so you end
with a situation where: alarms and problems are not an equivalent thing.
so, only the marketing dept of
your software vendor can "convince" you.
guy, welcome to a wild world where you need to have an eye and there's no
tree to hide behind.
watch or get killed. no software will make you safe unless you collaborate.
cheers,
mouss
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