Re: Remote health test for servers?
on Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 05:30:31PM -0500, Randy Rodriguez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Jacob S. wrote: Let's not forget Big Brother http://www.bb4.com Easier to set up than Nagios, more extensible too. Good community of developers and users for support. They have a license the call the Better Than Free License (BTFL). Basically, if you sell a service that incorporates BB, you have to purchase a license, otherwise it's free. As per the page: Simply put, if Big Brother is helping you or someone else (in the case of outsourcing) make money then you'll need to get a commercial license. That's not DFSG, OSI Open Source, or FSF Free Software free. Me? I'd avoid backing myself into that corner. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? Gentoo is one step on the long road from Debian to Debian. signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Remote health test for servers?
On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 05:30:31PM -0500, Randy Rodriguez wrote: Jacob S. wrote: On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 16:01:33 -0500 Randy Rodriguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let's not forget Big Brother http://www.bb4.com Easier to set up than Nagios, more extensible too. Good community of developers and users for support. I saw that one when I was looking. Did I misunderstand something, or is it not free software? (free as in food and/or free as in speech) They have a license the call the Better Than Free License (BTFL). Basically, if you sell a service that incorporates BB, you have to purchase a license, otherwise it's free. As per the page: Simply put, if Big Brother is helping you or someone else (in the case of outsourcing) make money then you'll need to get a commercial license. Monitoring your own servers in house, free. Monitoring a client's servers, in house or remote, commercial. Calling that Better Than Free seems like a horrible misnomer. It might be better for *them*. (To answer Jacob S.'s question, no, it's not free as in speech.) Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Remote health test for servers?
Jacob S. wrote: Does anyone have some good scripts (or know of a progam, though I suspect that's overkill) for having an automated process that periodically runs to make sure a server is still alive? If the server were running the other os, I think an occasional ping would be good enough, but I've seen a Linux server lose it's hard drive and still answer pings before. :-) Hi Jacob, you could also have a look at cacti, together with Tobi Oetikers' rrdtool - both are free, and you can monitor other hosts as if they were 'under your fingertips' ;-) apt-get install cacti should get you started. HTH, wjl aka Wolfgang Lonien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Remote health test for servers?
Quoting Wolfgang Lonien [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Jacob S. wrote: Does anyone have some good scripts (or know of a progam, though I suspect that's overkill) for having an automated process that periodically runs to make sure a server is still alive? If the server were running the other os, I think an occasional ping would be good enough, but I've seen a Linux server lose it's hard drive and still answer pings before. :-) Nagios, Big Brother, Big Sister, and others are good for Go/No Go checking of hosts' and servers' aliveness. I am most familiar with Nagios. It can take actions on detected problems like e-mail an alert to your cellphone/pager. It saved my system once. I turned off the A/C to clean the outdoor exchanger. Forgot to turn it back on. Went into town to write and sip a latte. In about an hour I received the temperature warning message, halfway home I received the temperature critical message. Made it home with the ambient temperature over 90F and the CPU temperature in the mid 50C's (130F's). 60C is about all the manufacturer warrants. Nagios will ping hosts. Connect to HTTP, SMTP, IMAP, POP, etc. servers. Query SNMP agents. And run scripts. Nice. HTH, Jeffrey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Remote health test for servers?
On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Jacob S. wrote: Does anyone have some good scripts (or know of a progam, though I suspect that's overkill) for having an automated process that periodically runs to make sure a server is still alive? If the server were running the other os, I think an occasional ping would be good enough, but I've seen a Linux server lose it's hard drive and still answer pings before. :-) http://www.nagios.org/ Nagios is a host and service monitor designed to inform you of network problems before your clients, end-users or managers do. It has been designed to run under the Linux operating system, but works fine under most *NIX variants as well. The monitoring daemon runs intermittent checks on hosts and services you specify using external plugins which return status information to Nagios. When problems are encountered, the daemon can send notifications out to administrative contacts in a variety of different ways (email, instant message, SMS, etc.). Current status information, historical logs, and reports can all be accessed via a web browser. -- [ Russ Schneider (a.k.a. Sugapablo) ] [ http://www.sugapablo.com --music ] [ http://www.sugapablo.net --personal ] [ [EMAIL PROTECTED] --jabber IM ] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Remote health test for servers?
On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 14:30:34 -0500 (EST) Russ Schneider [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Jacob S. wrote: Does anyone have some good scripts (or know of a progam, though I suspect that's overkill) for having an automated process that periodically runs to make sure a server is still alive? If the server were running the other os, I think an occasional ping would be good enough, but I've seen a Linux server lose it's hard drive and still answer pings before. :-) http://www.nagios.org/ snip Thanks, Russ. That looks exactly like the type of thing I'm looking for. And definitely better than I could script in a couple hours. :-) Thanks again, Jacob - GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 Slight disorientation after prolonged system uptime is normal for new Linux users. Please do not adjust your browser. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Remote health test for servers?
Jacob S. wrote: On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 14:30:34 -0500 (EST) Russ Schneider [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Jacob S. wrote: snip http://www.nagios.org/ snip Thanks, Russ. That looks exactly like the type of thing I'm looking for. And definitely better than I could script in a couple hours. :-) Thanks again, Jacob Let's not forget Big Brother http://www.bb4.com Easier to set up than Nagios, more extensible too. Good community of developers and users for support. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Remote health test for servers?
On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 16:01:33 -0500 Randy Rodriguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let's not forget Big Brother http://www.bb4.com Easier to set up than Nagios, more extensible too. Good community of developers and users for support. I saw that one when I was looking. Did I misunderstand something, or is it not free software? (free as in food and/or free as in speech) Thanks, Jacob - GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 What you end up with, after running an operating system concept through these many marketing coffee filters, is something not unlike plain hot water. --Matt Welsh pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Remote health test for servers?
Jacob S. wrote: On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 16:01:33 -0500 Randy Rodriguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let's not forget Big Brother http://www.bb4.com Easier to set up than Nagios, more extensible too. Good community of developers and users for support. I saw that one when I was looking. Did I misunderstand something, or is it not free software? (free as in food and/or free as in speech) They have a license the call the Better Than Free License (BTFL). Basically, if you sell a service that incorporates BB, you have to purchase a license, otherwise it's free. As per the page: Simply put, if Big Brother is helping you or someone else (in the case of outsourcing) make money then you'll need to get a commercial license. Monitoring your own servers in house, free. Monitoring a client's servers, in house or remote, commercial. Thanks, Jacob - GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 What you end up with, after running an operating system concept through these many marketing coffee filters, is something not unlike plain hot water. --Matt Welsh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
