From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 15 13:22:31 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 813B116A403 for ; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 13:22:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wmoran@collaborativefusion.com) Received: from mx00.pub.collaborativefusion.com (mx00.pub.collaborativefusion.com [206.210.89.199]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0458643D5C for ; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 13:22:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wmoran@collaborativefusion.com) Received: from collaborativefusion.com (mx01.pub.collaborativefusion.com [206.210.89.201]) (TLS: TLSv1/SSLv3,256bits,AES256-SHA) by wingspan with esmtp; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 08:22:30 -0500 id 000564CF.455B1496.00010058 Received: from Internal Mail-Server by mx01 (envelope-from wmoran@collaborativefusion.com) with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 15 Nov 2006 08:22:28 -0500 Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 08:22:28 -0500 From: Bill Moran To: Sean Murphy Message-Id: <20061115082228.01bed8c3.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> In-Reply-To: <455A6AD5.7060804@calarts.edu> References: <455A6AD5.7060804@calarts.edu> Organization: Collaborative Fusion X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.9 (GTK+ 2.10.6; i386-portbld-freebsd6.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Network Monitoring Application Help, What do you use? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 13:22:31 -0000 In response to Sean Murphy : > I was looking into a Network/Server monitoring application that would do > the following > > > Must have features > email/page/sms if one of the rules fail > has the ability to of course ping the device, ssh into or have someway > of checking if a daemon is running. > > Optional but nice features > reporting statistics and system status (web based) > restart a failed daemon > syslog parsing > remote administration Nagios is a popular choice for this. It has a gazillion different types of checks it can do, but it doesn't do all your nice to haves. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. IMPORTANT: This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If the reader of this message is not an intended recipient (or the individual responsible for the delivery of this message to an intended recipient), please be advised that any re-use, dissemination, distribution or copying of this message is prohibited. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system.