From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 5 13:02:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA01171 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 5 Nov 1998 13:02:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from singularity.enigami.com (singularity.enigami.com [208.140.182.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA01057 for ; Thu, 5 Nov 1998 13:01:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ckempf@singularity.enigami.com) Received: (from ckempf@localhost) by singularity.enigami.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id QAA26242; Thu, 5 Nov 1998 16:01:19 -0500 (EST) To: Eric Hake , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Best way to monitor a remote unix box? References: <4.1.19981105043545.0092d8c0@clean.net> X-Copyright: Copyright (C) 1998 Cory Kempf. All Rights Reserved X-PGP-Fingerprint: 191E 2FB7 E27D 76C3 8E79 4D26 2B3B B20F 2A9C 1E1A X-PGP-Keyloc: ; finger ckempf@enigami.com From: Cory Kempf Date: 05 Nov 1998 16:01:18 -0500 In-Reply-To: Eric Hake's message of "Thu, 05 Nov 1998 04:36:50 -0800" Message-ID: Lines: 19 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Eric Hake writes: >I've got a situation where I am going to be installing headless bsd boxes >My question is this: What is the best way to remote monitor each of these >boxes from a central NOC, so I can be alerted of problems as they develop? I would look into SNMP. Set up one box to gather SNMP info from each of the other systems, set up alarms on things you care about (e.g. disk space, etc). +C -- Thinking of purchasing RAM from the Chip Merchant? Please read this first: Cory Kempf Macintosh / Unix Consulting & Software Development ckempf@enigami.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message