Suggest a system monitioring software package

[Les Mikesell]

aragonx at dcsnow.com wrote:
> I'm looking for some system monitoring software.  In the past, I have
> always heard Nagios referred to in a positive way.  This might be what I
> need.  Let me define:
> 
> 1)  Needs to run a shell script every 10 minutes or so and check the
> return status.  If it fails, send a page.
> 
> 2)  Have a web interface where system admins can see the status of the
> servers.
> 
> 3)  Have a button on the web page where system admins can run a script on
> the server manually.
> 
> I think the 3rd requirement is the difficult one.
> 
> As always, I appreciate your help and value your input.  :)

OpenNMS (http://www.opennms.org) can do the first 2 and a lot more if 
you have enough servers to justify the configuration effort.  For the 
3rd one, you would have to do some custom programming.

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   Les Mikesell
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