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Subject: Re: monitoring and alerting software  ????
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Chuck Swiger wrote:
> Ed Stover wrote:
> [ ... ]
> 
>> I know some people that run big brother and are satisfied by it.
>> http://www.bb4.org/
> 
> 
> I would second this recommendation.  Big brother is relatively simple to
> configure, although it is by design more of a monitoring tool, and is
> less active about responding to changes, although it does support lots
> and lots of types of notifications.
> 
> BB is also not open source, although the source code is available and
> you are welcome to use it for yourself or your business for free.  But
> they want you to buy a license if you sell BB's monitoring to other
> people-- ie, an ISP and clients...
> 
You know, I think there was an open source clone of this some where...
If i find it, I will post it and see if it in ports as well...