Re: Network Monitoring Tools

[Ki Song]

> From: "Daniel B. Thurman" 
> Reply-To: For users of Fedora Core releases 
> Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 07:59:48 -0800
> To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" 
> Subject: RE: Network Monitoring Tools
> > From: [e-mail]
> > [mailto:[e-mail]]On Behalf Of Ki Song
> > Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2005 6:08 AM
> > To: For users of Fedora Core releases
> > Subject: Network Monitoring Tools
> >
> > Our company is having some issues with a web hosting provider.
> > The server we
> > have with them (at a remote location) crashes ... sometimes
> > more than once a
> > week.
> >
> > We are an e-commerce company, so whenever our site is down, we
> > are losing
> > orders!
> >
> > Is there a network monitoring tool that I can install on a
> > machine within
> > our own network that will monitor the server uptime of our
> > server that is at
> > a remote location?
> >
> > I want a tool that will monitor the server, make sure certain
> > services are
> > working, and then, if they are not, to either text message me,
> > or e-mail me.
>
> Check out nagios and/or cacti.  Cacti and Nagios uses snmp, I believe
> and nagios is quite extensive and flexible IMO.  Not sure if it is
> overkill for your needs or hard to setup but I used it for my 13+
> home systems.  Quite nice and it lets me know immediately if a
> system is down or if resources are being depleted. You can use
> pagers and email notification and perhaps send a message to your
> cell phone.
>
> Dan

Thanks, Dan, for the info. However, I believe those programs would be
overkill.

So far, the program I am most intrigued in are bigbrother and mon.

Does anyone have any information on how to obtain, install, and configure
mon?
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