THIS IS EASY There is a Zabbix Plugin :-)
Install zabbix on a server - then install the plugin - configure the port and such (defaults are just fine) and voila - you have the information needed. Zabbix will also monitor snmp for other applications and servers - and is FREE On Feb 4, 2010, at 2:00 PM, Ian Bowers wrote: > to be honest, you ought to get something like Cacti running on an external > server. It's easy to deploy and configure. You'll get charts of all kinds > of info, and its only a few clicks to set up. > > In order to run it you'll need to know a little about SNMP. But for > monitoring, quite honestly SNMP is king. It's old, crude, and ridiculously > good at what it does. > > On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Vick Khera <vi...@khera.org> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 11:46 AM, mehma sarja <mehmasa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Nagios is complex and the Reconnoiter thing looks weird. Now that I think > > TANSTAAFL. If your requirements involve knowing when things are not > working right, you a) need to know what the baseline of "working > properly" means, and b) have a means to detect when that baseline is > out of the norm, and c) have a means to notify you of that. The tools > that do this are not trivial, because the problem is not trivial. I > really don't think your Control Center software at your prior company > was "easy" software. > > > about it, is there a formal database in a pfsense install? Don't > > know...pkg_info -a shows blank and a find on *.conf does not show a hint of > > a db. The PHPService package could be used to send messages. Remote > > syslogging will get some info - not all. > > Not that I'm aware. I suspect if any package needed a database it'd > install it. But that just seems wrong, from a moral standpoint, to > have on a firewall. I suppose it would be ok if it were sqlite or > BDB... but never anything that listened to a network socket. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com > For additional commands, e-mail: support-h...@pfsense.com > > Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org > >
