On Sun, 2005-05-29 at 10:25, bruce wrote: > as an example, i have 10-15 servers... i'm not an admin, and for the things > that i'm working on, i don't want to be one... however, i'd still like to > know that the boxes are corectly setup for the given functions.. right now, > i don't. as i said, my gut tells me that a combination of the control > panels/sourcelabs.com with monitoring, and some other functionality would be > useful... You need very different approaches for 10-15 servers in a farm all doing the same operation because you need that to scale up, 10-15 servers each doing different things at the same location, or 10-15 servers all doing multiple functions at different locations. One monitoring tool that is straightforward to set up is cacti from http://www.cacti.net/. I don't think it does any real-time alerting but you can graph the CPU, network, and memory usage to watch for trends that show if you are headed for problems. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
