From: fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com]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