From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 18 20:11:20 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 2793916A400 for ; Sat, 18 Mar 2006 20:11:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from corwin@aeternal.net) Received: from amber.aeternal.net (amber.in.markiza.sk [62.168.76.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95A1943D46 for ; Sat, 18 Mar 2006 20:11:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from corwin@aeternal.net) Received: from localhost (localhost.aeternal.net [127.0.0.1]) by amber.aeternal.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01862B910 for ; Sat, 18 Mar 2006 21:11:15 +0100 (CET) Received: from amber.aeternal.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (amber.aeternal.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 42135-01 for ; Sat, 18 Mar 2006 21:11:15 +0100 (CET) Received: from [192.168.0.30] (pleiades.aeternal.net [192.168.0.30]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by amber.aeternal.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67621B92B for ; Sat, 18 Mar 2006 21:11:15 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <441C68E8.1070305@aeternal.net> Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 21:09:12 +0100 From: Martin Hudec User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <441C5D26.30506@aeternal.net> <1B045D0C372087A86CFAD97F@Paul-Schmehls-Computer.local> In-Reply-To: <1B045D0C372087A86CFAD97F@Paul-Schmehls-Computer.local> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at aeternal.net Subject: Re: System administration question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: corwin@aeternal.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 20:11:20 -0000 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