Re: Network Monitoring Tools

[Ankush Grover]

On 11/17/05, Ki Song  wrote:
> > 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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> hey,

checkout an example on mon
http://www.kernel.org/software/mon/example.cf

Regards

Ankush