RE: Network Monitoring Tools

[Dan Thurman]

> 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

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[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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[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?
> > --
> > No virus found in this outgoing message.
> > Checked by AVG Free Edition.
> > Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: 267.13.3/173 - Release Date:
>
> 11/16/2005
> > --
>
> hey,

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

Regards

Ankush

Network Monitoring Tools

[Rickey Moore]

On 11/17/05, Ki Song  wrote: 
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.

Wow, I haven't heard that one in a long while. Big Brother is simple to set up, works great. The Northern Pacific Railroad used it, as did Texas A&M and other assorted large networks. I used it when it was first released and the author is a helluva guy, home programming operation. It just watched logfiles and emails updates to your machine, which gets parsed to html for your viewing pleasure with your favorite browser. It's simple to use as the docfiles, back then, were quite well written and easy for a non programmer to set up, IF you follow the instructions. It's probably better now than what I used 8 years ago. You do that, it will work and not place any great strain on the machines resources. They just need to have email running. Ric
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[Mike McGrath]

> > 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?

If you're interested Nagios is now a part of Fedora-Extras, Cacti may
be in there soon as well.

-Mike