Oddly I am almost positive that they have since moved on to Nagios. (BB was cool in 1996-97, but Nagios is basically as good as Tivoli and OpenView. None of which have as many Windows features as MOM+SMS, but I still think i can make a Tivoli install for less money than MOM+SMS.)
There's a whole series of companies providing serious professional support on Nagios and there's products that integrate with Nagios (I use both a local phone that integrates with my master server AND a notification server from Reliable Response) > > FYI > > http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue15/bbartlg.html > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Al > Sent: February 23, 2006 4:12 AM > To: hlds@list.valvesoftware.com > Subject: Re: [hlds] Server monitoring on the cheap > > I have to give nagios a bump aswell *bump* does exactly what you need to > keep a network monitored, you can even plug a mobile phone into your > server > and have it configured to sms you and wake you up in the middle of the > night > when your servers fail. > Also a nice addon which gives you a webinterface for configuring the > nagios > config files (www.nagiosql.org) - you can manage the services and servers > via the interface the data is stored in a mysql database you hit a button > and it will write the config files. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Stuart Stegall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <hlds@list.valvesoftware.com> > Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 8:06 AM > Subject: RE: [hlds] Server monitoring on the cheap > > >> HostMonitor is nice enough. We never really found it to be 100% >> effective as sometimes it was give an alert on a server that wasn't >> down. >> Eventually >> I came across Netsaint and then Nagios(what netsaint became) ... >> Nagios is pretty much perfect. And it's free to boot. Try > www.nagios.org. >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan Sorenson >> Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 12:45 AM >> To: hlds@list.valvesoftware.com >> Subject: [hlds] Server monitoring on the cheap >> >> In my real-life job as a systems and network engineer I was given a >> task of finding a product that would monitor both my netwerkin stuff >> so far as ports and stats, as well as Windows server processes, and >> concentrate on things that don't cost an arm and a leg and a >> co-worker's salary per year. >> Well, there went HP Openview. >> >> So I evaluated a dozen or so and found a suprise find that I can't >> recommend, but might be worth checking out. It's not quite for a >> co-location company, and not quite for a Fortune 500 company, but for >> the smaller shops I thought it worth at least mentioning. >> >> I can't recommend it because it's HostMonitor 5 from KS Software. >> http://www.ks-soft.net on your internet dial. I've not found much on >> the company and near as I can tell it's probably one guy coding late >> into the night in his PJ's with a bottle of vodka at his side and >> muttering swear words at Microsoft in Russian. Or maybe that's just me. >> >> On the other hand, his HostMonitor product beat the crap out of stuff >> costing twenty times the price, per year, and though it's not the >> prettiest web-page, giving the health of your NOC for under $1000 I >> can live with ugly web pages, log to a SQL server, and make my own >> pretty reports for manglement. >> >> On the netwerkin' side you have to supply the MIB to query. >> That's a pain when you've routers with 20 different interfaces since >> this doesn't automatically identify them as Int FastEthernet0/0 on a >> Cisco 3745. >> Frankly, I don't care about that so much as this thing will query >> Windows Perfmon stats. Want to know CPU usage? It's >> there. Want to scan event logs? It's there. Want to telnet to >> port 27015 and look for a response? It's there. How about the status >> of a single process that isn't a service? It's there. >> Alerts can be escalated, yadda yadda yadda. Read the fluff on the web >> page above. I don't buy all that stuff either, and I'm still playing >> with it against my own network, but at this sort of price I can afford >> to do at least premliminary scans with it and use the more specific >> tools for other tasks and save on licensing fees. >> The support for external batch files, VB scripts, and such are just >> icing on the cake. >> >> Just thought I'd throw it out there for your consideration. >> I've no connection with the company, never even knew they existed >> prior to a couple of weeks ago, and honestly I think other products do >> it better. >> But >> at his prices I don't care if I get a license and he has a heart >> attack tomorrow, I'm saving a wad of cash over the flashier products >> and that makes me look good on mahogany row. >> >> >> - Dan >> >> * Dan Sorenson DoD #1066 A.H.M.C. #35 [EMAIL PROTECTED] * >> * Vikings? There ain't no vikings here. Just us honest farmers. * >> * The town was burning, the villagers were dead. They didn't need * >> * those sheep anyway. That's our story and we're sticking to it. * >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >> please visit: >> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >> please visit: >> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
