Re: [ADMIN] Application monitoring

2003-11-15 Thread Steve Lane
Thanks to all who gave me responses on this issue. A number of you recommended Nagios (www.nagios.com), and a quick inspection does suggest that this is a very useful tool. I plan to look into it further. -- sgl === Steve Lane Vice President T

Re: [ADMIN] Application monitoring

2003-11-05 Thread Oli Sennhauser
Hi Steve In my old company we had some shell skripts, monitoring all the oracle stuff. I plan to transfer this to pg later. It was easy but verry stable concept: 2 Servers where watching each other with the same functionality: the master was checking all databases for availablity, free space i

Re: [ADMIN] Application monitoring

2003-11-03 Thread Jean Huveneers
ssage- From: Steve Lane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: dinsdag 4 november 2003 2:20 To: PGSQL List (E-mail) Subject: [ADMIN] Application monitoring Hi all: We maintain a number of web-based applications that use postgres as the back end. We recently had an unfortunate situation where the h

Re: [ADMIN] Application monitoring

2003-11-03 Thread Steve Crawford
On Monday 03 November 2003 5:19 pm, Steve Lane wrote: > Hi all: > > We maintain a number of web-based applications that use postgres as > the back end > > The client responded that surely this problem of monitoring a > database-backed web app was a known, solved problem, and wanted to > know wh

Re: [ADMIN] Application monitoring

2003-11-03 Thread Jeff Bohmer
I can't offer info about monitoring for break-ins or other malicious activity. But if you're looking for monitoring a site/database to see that it's up and working properly, there are many, many options. Here's a product I've used to monitor an extremely complex site at a financial company (ex

[ADMIN] Application monitoring

2003-11-03 Thread Steve Lane
Title: Application monitoring Hi all: We maintain a number of web-based applications that use postgres as the back end. We recently had an unfortunate situation where the hosted server was hacked and the client had some significant downtime. We proposed a custom monitoring app, written in PHP,