On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 17:52, Sébastien Bisoglio wrote: > > Ok but Webmin is just a part of what i'm searching.. > > I want to have an system stats and summary (if service failed..) and a > lot of information about my systems (i think the software must parse logs) If you are looking for something that tells you if services failed you may want to look at one of the following: bigbrother - Very nice light weight monitoring system. Gives you a nice easy to view web page. Can be configured to monitor virtually anything on a system. Used to have a better than free license option but they were in the process of changing that a couple of years ago. Was relatively easy to setup and worked well as long as you were not trying to monitor thousands and thousands of hosts and services. nagios - Believe this is legacy of netsaint. Designed to monitor services as opposed to hosts. A little different way of thinking about things but it does work and works well. More difficult to setup and configure but once done it does the job well. opennms - Attempt at building an open source HP Openview. Have not worked with this one as much as the other two. It appeared to work well but at the time a couple of years ago had issues with latest java sdk from sun. I believe this one utilized tomcat and a version of java sdk that still did the garbage collection. If it was run with the lates java sdk it would eventually crash due to the problem. Hopefully that has been fixed by this point but I don't know. What was nice with all of these is that they can monitor systems on your network. I believe all of them have the concept of an agent you can run on the host being monitored which allows you to get very detailed information on the system. In most cases it was very easy to write a plugin to monitor pretty much whatever you wanted. This includes watching log files and processes in memory. All three are overkill if you are just monitoring one system except for maybe bigbrother. But if nothing else they may give you an idea of how to do something like this. -- Scot L. Harris webid@xxxxxxxxxx party, n.: A gathering where you meet people who drink so much you can't even remember their names.
