On Sat, 2005-09-10 at 10:50, Scot L. Harris wrote: > On Sat, 2005-09-10 at 11:03, Jonathan Carpenter wrote: > > I am looking for a way to monitor my servers status. I am also wanting > > to monitoring specific process or daemons as well and alert me when > > there is an issue either by email or pager. I would also like to have > > some sort of IDS or log checking that will alert me when there is a > > lot of activity in my secure log or messages log out of the ordinary. > > My network is blocking icmp packets so I cannot ping each server at > > the current time. Can anyone recommend anything for me? Any help would > > be greatly appreciated. > You probably want to take a look at something like Big Brother or > Hobbit. OpenNMS and Nagios are other options you can use. They require > a little more effort to setup than Big Brother. Any of these can be > used to monitor systems and services on your network. I've used spong from http://spong.sourceforge.net/ for ages, simply because it was around before Nagios, had a way to throttle the notification messages and you could add snippets of perl for custom tests. It hasn't been maintained for a while but it still works. It does normally do a ping before other network service tests but that is configurable. I'd probably look at Nagios first if I were starting over, but spong as done a good job of providing a simple web status display and email notifications. I also use cacti http://www.cacti.net/ to graph network traffic and cpu and memory use via snmp because it is so easy to set up. However, it does not provide any way to do notifications when a host is down or values cross some threshold. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
