On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 07:39, Jon maddog Hall wrote: > O.K., here is the situation: > > Mixture of Windows, Unix and Linux systems, the person needs to do these > things over the net, preferably with a graphical interface. > > Workload Monitoring > User Activity Monitoring > Automated Monitoring of Log Files > Process Monitoring > > ideally you could also do this: > > Application Resource Management > Performance Management > Availability Management > Directory and File Management > > Are there any packages out there, either freeware or proprietary that do > much of these things?
One that I've used a lot over the years that the first half (the monitoring) of the functions you describe is Big Brother. It has both a server and a client component. The server runs on Linux, various Unixen (I've used it on Solaris), and on Windows NT/2K. The client runs on lots of systems including Netware, MacOS, Windows, Linux, UNIX, etc. It is *very* extensible in that you can write your own extensions to monitor whatever you want and then plug them in to the server or client as appropriate. Extensions can be written as shell scripts, Perl, PHP, C, C++, etc. It isn't explicitly setup to the administration stuff but perhaps the extension mechanism plus sufficient cleverness will get you that. It can notify you of problems by email, pager, or cell-phone SMS messages. Of course you can write your own custom notifier mechanism too. Their web site is: http://www.bb4.com/ You can download their demo package for free, it has no timebomb and is not 'crippleware'. It's fully functional. A business would most likely find it useful to 'purchase' the product. The purchase is actually more like an annual support contract than a product purchase. The support from the vendor is outstanding, they're a great bunch. -- Dan Coutu Managing Director Snowy Owl Internet Consulting, LLC http://www.snowy-owl.com _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
