From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 2 10:58:59 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA02078 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 2 Jun 1997 10:58:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from horst.bfd.com (horst.bfd.com [204.160.242.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA02070 for ; Mon, 2 Jun 1997 10:58:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from harlie.bfd.com (bastion.bfd.com [204.160.242.14]) by horst.bfd.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA24619; Mon, 2 Jun 1997 10:58:50 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 10:58:50 -0700 (PDT) From: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" To: NetSonic cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Paging, system monitoring In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970602115056.0077502c@mail.netsonic.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, NetSonic wrote: > Can anyone recommend good software we can install that will monitor the > system, performance, hardware etc for problems and will notify via pager > when problems arise? > > Thanks I found that this wasn't particularly hard to do in shell script, using qpage to deliver notification. It was about a 6 hour job, but I'm not so much worried with performance monitoring as with functionality. Most of the work went into detecting a special case that our ESIX boxes get themselves into, where they will be pingable, and you can rsh to the box, but the command never actually executes and never times out to an error.