Re: monitoring and alerting software ????

2005-05-14 Thread Ed Stover
Warren Block wrote: On Thu, 12 May 2005, Duane Winner wrote: Does anybody have recommendations for a good solution to alert me while I am not at work if something goes wrong with my infrastucture/network/servers? In other words, if I am at home, I need to be alerted if one of my FreeBSD

Re: monitoring and alerting software ????

2005-05-14 Thread Chuck Swiger
Ed Stover wrote: [ ... ] I know some people that run big brother and are satisfied by it. http://www.bb4.org/ I would second this recommendation. Big brother is relatively simple to configure, although it is by design more of a monitoring tool, and is less active about responding to changes,

Re: monitoring and alerting software ????

2005-05-14 Thread Mike Woods
Warren Block wrote: On Thu, 12 May 2005, Duane Winner wrote: Does anybody have recommendations for a good solution to alert me while I am not at work if something goes wrong with my infrastucture/network/servers? In other words, if I am at home, I need to be alerted if one of my FreeBSD servers

Re: monitoring and alerting software ????

2005-05-14 Thread Ed Stover
Chuck Swiger wrote: Ed Stover wrote: [ ... ] I know some people that run big brother and are satisfied by it. http://www.bb4.org/ I would second this recommendation. Big brother is relatively simple to configure, although it is by design more of a monitoring tool, and is less active

monitoring and alerting software ????

2005-05-12 Thread Duane Winner
Hello, This may not be FreeBSD specific, but since I'm running nearly a 100% FreeBSD shop, I figured this would be as good as place as any to ask a question. Also, it might just turn out that the solution for me might be software that runs on FreeBSD. Does anybody have recommendations for a

Re: monitoring and alerting software ????

2005-05-12 Thread Philip Hallstrom
Nagios. http://www.nagios.org/ On Thu, 12 May 2005, Duane Winner wrote: Hello, This may not be FreeBSD specific, but since I'm running nearly a 100% FreeBSD shop, I figured this would be as good as place as any to ask a question. Also, it might just turn out that the solution for me might be

Re: monitoring and alerting software ????

2005-05-12 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Thursday 12 May 2005 12:47, Philip Hallstrom wrote: Nagios. http://www.nagios.org/ aol Me, too /aol I have a Nagios server monitor several friendly networks. I get emails, pages, or Jabber popups as appropriate whenever problems start. -- Kirk Strauser pgpvmBnWWvBnR.pgp Description:

Re: monitoring and alerting software ????

2005-05-12 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 12 May 2005, Duane Winner wrote: Does anybody have recommendations for a good solution to alert me while I am not at work if something goes wrong with my infrastucture/network/servers? In other words, if I am at home, I need to be alerted if one of my FreeBSD servers go down, but also if