Re: Watchdog Program
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 02:02:23AM +0200, Richard Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 32 lines which said: > you could try BigBrother (http://bb4.com/) Heavily non-free. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Watchdog Program
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 12:38:06PM +0200, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 08:05:53PM -0300, > Matias G. Lambert ( OSInet ) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > a message of 36 lines which said: > > > take a look at http://www.nagios.org > > Why not mon, much simpler and which has a command-line interface? Indeed. And, if you're as paranoid as me: run two mon's. One to be the 'real' mon, one to be the mon-monitor. (ie, if the machine running mon dies, the other machine will pick it up.) My mon installation has a silly script that connects to a Portmaster2 with a modem and pages my numeric pager. It has a nifty little table to convert "what broke" into numeric codes... ie, the first 3 digits are '555' so I don't accidentally call the police... then 3 digits for the host (usually derived from the IP number, sometimes area code..), and 3 digits for 'type of outage', usually devised from the port number. So if I get a page of '555250025', I know that SMTP is down on the main mail server. A procmail trick mails my cell phone, since I was too lazy to set up a seperate mail-alert for the phone. This system has alerted me to every outage for the last 6 years and lets me sleep at night (unless something breaks... but then I'm supposed to be awake...) -- |All her life she was a dancer, but no brian moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>|one ever played the song she knew. | -- the residents -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Watchdog Program
Hi, > help. Is there a package that I can use to monitor a whole range of > systems remotely? Any help appreciated. you could try BigBrother (http://bb4.com/) or BigSister (http://bigsister.graeff.com/home.html). I don't know BigSister that much but basically it's a clone of BigBrother. BigBrother is just a set of shell scripts that can monitor the various services running on the machines you want to montor. It gives you a status output (http://bb4.com/bb/) of all the machines and you can also get statistics. Also Alerting is possible via various means. Since it's a set of shell scripts it should be possible to monitor the mailserver and trigger a modem dialing your mobild phone number in case the mailserver goes down. Otherwise I think mail is the default method for alerting. I know of a small ISP and telephone provider that uses bb4 as the primary alerting mechanism for the tech guys running independant of the larger setup with HP OpenView (I think) at the nmc. Often bb4 is quicker :-) Hope that was the answer to your question. Regards, Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Watchdog Program
On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 12:39:29 +0200 Stephane Bortzmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > you could try BigBrother (http://bb4.com/) > > Heavily non-free. ...because of which it has a (GPLed) Big Sister http://bigsister.graeff.com/home.html Bye Volker Tanger -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Watchdog Program
On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 08:05:53PM -0300, Matias G. Lambert ( OSInet ) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 36 lines which said: > take a look at http://www.nagios.org Why not mon, much simpler and which has a command-line interface? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Watchdog Program
take a look at http://www.nagios.org Matias Lambert OSInet Telecomunicaciones Capital Federal - Buenos Aires Argentina - CA1185ACA [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Mensaje original- De: Tim Philp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviado el: Martes, 05 de Agosto de 2003 07:45 p.m. Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Asunto: Watchdog Program As a small ISP, I need a way to make sure that our systems are running properly. Obviously, if something goes wrong, I get a notice from the root mail, however if the mail server goes down, it creates a problem for this to notify me. I am new to Linux so I would appreciate your help. Is there a package that I can use to monitor a whole range of systems remotely? Any help appreciated. Tim Philp -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
