On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 13:30, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Am Di, den 06.04.2004 schrieb Rui Miguel Seabra um 19:01: > > > On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 11:05 -0400, Mark Haney wrote: > > > I'm looking for a good open source service monitor. I just need something > > > that will monitor specific services or ports and can send an email if the > > > service fails. I don't mind using Big Brother or something like that, but > > > it's really overkill on our network. Can someone point me in a good > > > direction that can handle Linux and Windows boxes? > > > > http://www.nagios.org is quite fine! > > Dag Wieers has nagios packages for FC1 at > http://dag.wieers.com/packages/ (through his repository of course too) > > > Rui > > Alexander Ditto! Nagios is great. If you can script a little, you can write your own plugins for devices that are one off, like highend wireless gear, Cable Modem systems, or even video gear. We run it, and bought a network enabled temp sensor to monitor the temp in our server rooms.