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
From: "Daniel B. Thurman" dant@cdkkt.com Reply-To: For users of Fedora Core releases fedora-list@redhat.com Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 07:59:48 -0800 To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" fedora-list@redhat.com Subject: RE: Network Monitoring Tools
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
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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On 11/17/05, Ki Song ki@knifecenter.com wrote:
From: "Daniel B. Thurman" dant@cdkkt.com Reply-To: For users of Fedora Core releases fedora-list@redhat.com Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 07:59:48 -0800 To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" fedora-list@redhat.com Subject: RE: Network Monitoring Tools
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
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
On 11/17/05, Ki Song ki@knifecenter.com 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 Ric
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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