From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 10 21:14:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from slip1.raccoon.com (slip1.raccoon.com [165.90.135.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A75F14C1F for ; Fri, 10 Sep 1999 21:14:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from johnl@raccoon.com) Received: from raccoon.com (dsl-ip145.networkiowa.com [165.90.140.145]) by slip1.raccoon.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA31521; Fri, 10 Sep 1999 23:05:43 -0500 Message-ID: <37D9D70E.9D2EF5D0@raccoon.com> Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 23:14:06 -0500 From: John Lengeling X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Steven Honson Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: rwhod & ruptime References: <3.0.5.32.19990909151559.008e6430@mail.planetquake.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Steven Honson wrote: > > Hi, > I currently use ruptime and rwhod to monitor the hosts on my LAN to great > success, but there are 3 hosts which i admin that are in another part of > the country which i access over the internet. I would like to be able to > get ruptime to show stats for those hosts as well, but so far have had no > luck, all the machines are running FreeBSD 3.2-STABLE. Does anyone know of > a way to get ruptime to display info on those hosts? rwho/ruptime use a broadcast or multicast protocol with a TTL of 1 so it will only work on the local subnet. See the man page for rwhod(8). I would strongly recommend you use Big Brother (BB) since it has more monitoring capabilities and will work over LAN and WAN connections. It will monitor disk, memory, processes, connectivity, etc and then page you via several mechanisms. It will do a much better job for you versus rwho/ruptime. If you want lights...lots of lights, then the BB Web Status page is really cool. BB can be found at http://bb4.com/ To see it in action goto: http://www.maclawran.ca/bb/ > Thanks in advance, > -Steven > --------------------------------------- > Steven Honson > Internet Technologist & Consultant > Taroona High School, Australia > shonson@hubbub.ths.tased.edu.au > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message