From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 12 17:47:10 2005 Return-Path: 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 07D6816A4CE for ; Thu, 12 May 2005 17:47:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: from zhonka1.zhonka.net (zhonka1.zhonka.net [66.228.195.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAD7A43D6D for ; Thu, 12 May 2005 17:47:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@philip.pjkh.com) Received: from wolf.pjkh.com ([66.228.196.74]) by zhonka1.zhonka.net (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-58414U4500L450S0V35) with ESMTP id net; Thu, 12 May 2005 10:47:09 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wolf.pjkh.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A11D58AF; Thu, 12 May 2005 10:47:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wolf.pjkh.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (wolf.pjkh.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 37061-02; Thu, 12 May 2005 10:47:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: by wolf.pjkh.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 3682658AE; Thu, 12 May 2005 10:47:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wolf.pjkh.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 301DF58AB; Thu, 12 May 2005 10:47:04 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 10:47:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Philip Hallstrom To: Duane Winner In-Reply-To: <428394B2.20409@att.net> Message-ID: <20050512104632.L37164@wolf.pjkh.com> References: <428394B2.20409@att.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at pjkh.com cc: FreeBSD - Questions Subject: Re: monitoring and alerting software ???? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 17:47:10 -0000 Nagios. http://www.nagios.org/ On Thu, 12 May 2005, Duane Winner wrote: > Hello, > > This may not be FreeBSD specific, but since I'm running nearly a 100% FreeBSD > shop, I figured this would be as good as place as any to ask a question. > Also, it might just turn out that the solution for me might be software that > runs on FreeBSD. > > Does anybody have recommendations for a good solution to alert me while I am > not at work if something goes wrong with my infrastucture/network/servers? > In other words, if I am at home, I need to be alerted if one of my FreeBSD > servers go down, but also if the router, firewall or switches go haywire. > > I'm thinking along the lines of getting a cell phone, and have a central > server with a modem dial my cell and send a text message, either directly or > via a 3rd party service, if anything goes wrong. I am the sole responsible > admin for babysitting my network and server farm, and we're setting up > critical systems that must be 24x7, so now I must be 'on call' 24x7. > > Is there anything out there that will assist me with this? > > Thanks, > DW > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >