Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 21:09:12 +0100 From: Martin Hudec <corwin@aeternal.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: System administration question Message-ID: <441C68E8.1070305@aeternal.net> In-Reply-To: <1B045D0C372087A86CFAD97F@Paul-Schmehls-Computer.local> References: <D90ED01478F01FBE287D54FE@Paul-Schmehls-Computer.local> <441C5D26.30506@aeternal.net> <1B045D0C372087A86CFAD97F@Paul-Schmehls-Computer.local>
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Hello Paul, Paul Schmehl wrote: > I thought about doing that as well, but I'm wondering if there is > something that already exists. (No sense in reinventing the wheel.) > Also, feeding the info to a database so trending information would be > available as well would probably be a nice feature. Well I wasn't looking for it :) I reinvented it, because I needed to learn the shell a bit better than I knew at that time. I hope that there are alternatives out there.. :). > The problem I have is I have one server running everything: list > software (mailman), smtp (postfix), imap (courier-imapd), web > (apache13/mod_ssl), webmail (squirrelmail), dns (bind9) and bulletin > board software (ultimatebb). The website gets over 5 million > hits/month, so I don't want to add any more daemons, if I don't have to. > > Something that spawns a short-term shell or process daily in the early > morning hours would probably be the best solution. I think you would like to continuously monitor your services, not just on those early morning hours. Continuous monitoring is nice thing. Take munin as example, it has two ports, munin-main (as master doing all the work) and munin-node (small daemon listening on port 4949 - configurable - just providing information for munin-main on demand). Also nagios could be (recommended) running its main part outside that one heavyused server. Cheers, Martin
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