From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 15 21:34:26 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C90E16A598 for ; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 21:34:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dave.list@pixelhammer.com) Received: from ecluster5.tls.net (ecluster5.tls.net [65.196.224.135]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AD8E743D5C for ; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 21:34:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dave.list@pixelhammer.com) Received: (qmail 40245 invoked by uid 89); 15 Nov 2006 21:29:51 -0000 Received: from 208-70-40-179.bb.hrtc.net (HELO ?192.168.0.103?) (ldg%tls.net@208.70.40.179) by auth-ecluster5.tls.net with SMTP; 15 Nov 2006 21:29:51 -0000 Message-ID: <455B87C6.50907@pixelhammer.com> Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 16:33:58 -0500 From: DAve User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Windows/20060516) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Questions References: <455A6AD5.7060804@calarts.edu> <20061115082228.01bed8c3.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> In-Reply-To: <20061115082228.01bed8c3.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Network Monitoring Application Help, What do you use? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 21:34:26 -0000 Bill Moran wrote: > In response to Sean Murphy : > >> I was looking into a Network/Server monitoring application that would do >> the following >> >> >> Must have features >> email/page/sms if one of the rules fail >> has the ability to of course ping the device, ssh into or have someway >> of checking if a daemon is running. >> >> Optional but nice features >> reporting statistics and system status (web based) The statistics are already there in the Nagios web interface. >> restart a failed daemon Could be done with an event handler maybe. >> syslog parsing No idea. >> remote administration It's web interface can be used as remotely as you deem secure. We use a VPN (I work remotely). > > Nagios is a popular choice for this. It has a gazillion different types > of checks it can do, but it doesn't do all your nice to haves. > Nagios can also be very heavily modified with custom plugins. Certainly worth looking into. There is a site dedicated to custom plugins at http://www.nagiosexchange.org. DAve -- Three years now I've asked Google why they don't have a logo change for Memorial Day. Why do they choose to do logos for other non-international holidays, but nothing for Veterans? Maybe they forgot who made that choice possible.