Re: Monitoring Software Configuration for Debian server.

2008-01-19 Thread Steve Dobson
Andy On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 20:41 -0500, Andy Syrewicze wrote: I've got a server with no gui. Just CLI and Webmin. Sounds like a server to me. I would like to have some sort of monitoring and reporting service that notifys me via e-mail if one of my Raid arrays Degrade and to let me know if

Re: Monitoring Software Configuration for Debian server.

2008-01-19 Thread C. Ahlstrom
Andrew Syrewicze 23:34 Fri 18 Jan If so how do I go about configuring smartmontools and mdadm for alerts?? -Original Message- From: Douglas A. Tutty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] smartmontools, madam I want to know how you figured out that madam meant mdadm

Re: Monitoring Software Configuration for Debian server.

2008-01-19 Thread hendrik
On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 11:24:09PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 08:41:40PM -0500, Andy Syrewicze wrote: I've got a server with no gui. Just CLI and Webmin. I would like to have some sort of monitoring and reporting service that notifys me via e-mail if one

Re: Monitoring Software Configuration for Debian server.

2008-01-19 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 11:34:43PM -0500, Andrew Syrewicze wrote: Right, I've got Smartmontools installed and working just fine, as well mdadm working for my array. Can these tools be configured to send alerts to a local mail account??? And from there be mailed to external mail addresses

Re: Monitoring Software Configuration for Debian server.

2008-01-19 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 11:34:43PM -0500, Andrew Syrewicze wrote: Right, I've got Smartmontools installed and working just fine, as well mdadm working for my array. Can these tools be configured to send alerts to a local mail account??? And from there be mailed to external mail addresses

Re: Monitoring Software Configuration for Debian server.

2008-01-19 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sat, 2008-01-19 at 08:45 +, Steve Dobson wrote: --snip-- I use Nagios. When it comes to monitoring remote systems it works very well. I wouldn't trust it to monitor itself because if the system fails how can it notify you? --snip-- This is where having multiple Nagios servers

Re: Monitoring Software Configuration for Debian server.

2008-01-19 Thread Steve Dobson
Alex On Sat, 2008-01-19 at 14:02 -0800, Alex Malinovich wrote: On Sat, 2008-01-19 at 08:45 +, Steve Dobson wrote: --snip-- I use Nagios. When it comes to monitoring remote systems it works very well. I wouldn't trust it to monitor itself because if the system fails how can it notify

Re: Monitoring Software Configuration for Debian server.

2008-01-19 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sat, 2008-01-19 at 12:56 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --snip-- He tells me that when he investigated he found that one of the drives had failed silently some time earlier, and the RAID was covering for the failed drive by using the other. He also told me the SMART stuff had provided

Re: Monitoring Software Configuration for Debian server.

2008-01-18 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 08:41:40PM -0500, Andy Syrewicze wrote: I've got a server with no gui. Just CLI and Webmin. I would like to have some sort of monitoring and reporting service that notifys me via e-mail if one of my Raid arrays Degrade and to let me know if the SMART check on one

Monitoring Software Configuration for Debian server.

2008-01-18 Thread Andy Syrewicze
Hello List. I've got a server with no gui. Just CLI and Webmin. I would like to have some sort of monitoring and reporting service that notifys me via e-mail if one of my Raid arrays Degrade and to let me know if the SMART check on one of my Disks fail. I would also like to use a easy to

RE: Monitoring Software Configuration for Debian server.

2008-01-18 Thread Andrew Syrewicze
smartmontools and mdadm for alerts?? -Original Message- From: Douglas A. Tutty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 11:24 PM To: debian-amd64@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Monitoring Software Configuration for Debian server. On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 08:41:40PM -0500, Andy