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Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 14:12:32 -0600 (MDT)
From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To: Duane Winner <dwinner-lists@att.net>
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Subject: Re: monitoring and alerting software  ????
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On Thu, 12 May 2005, Duane Winner wrote:

> 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.

Here's something I wrote recently on setting up Nagios on FreeBSD:

http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/nagios.pdf

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA