From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Jan 8 18:13:22 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id SAA17933 for isp-outgoing; Wed, 8 Jan 1997 18:13:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from hydrogen.nike.efn.org (metriclient-8.uoregon.edu [128.223.172.8]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id SAA17928 for ; Wed, 8 Jan 1997 18:13:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hydrogen.nike.efn.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id SAA01596; Wed, 8 Jan 1997 18:12:56 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 18:12:53 -0800 (PST) From: John-Mark Gurney Reply-To: John-Mark Gurney To: Jason Lixfeld cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org, bsdi-users@bsdi.com Subject: Re: Network Monitoring Utility In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 8 Jan 1997, Jason Lixfeld wrote: > Does anyone know of a decent program for BSD (FreeBSD)? I am looking for > something that I can setup will all the servers, terminal servers, news > servers, proxy servers, routers, and external connections and monitor > the services for each. ie: mail = smtp & pop service and ping monitor, > news = nntp service and ping monitor, term servers = telnet and ping > monitors etc. We are currently using a Windows '95 based program by > IPSwitch called What'sUp, and it works pretty well except for a few odds > and ends. We are looking for something that we can tailor and configure > to suite our needs and I am just curious as to wether or not anyone here > can provide any suggestions! for FreeBSD there is a port of Big Brother (bb in net) that will watch stuff for you... a friend set it up to watch a server... other than that it watches most common services and allows paging of a sysadmin if something goes wrong... I don't know what other features it has... > Thanks in advance.. hope this helps... ttyl.. John-Mark gurney_j@efn.org http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/ Modem/FAX: (541) 683-6954 (FreeBSD Box) Live in Peace, destroy Micro$oft, support free software, run FreeBSD (unix)