From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 14 11:37:35 2005 Return-Path: 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 D8F7116A4D0 for ; Sat, 14 May 2005 11:37:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5A4843D1D for ; Sat, 14 May 2005 11:37:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1FC75D62; Sat, 14 May 2005 07:37:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 66845-01; Sat, 14 May 2005 07:37:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-68-161-53-96.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.53.96]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 931B85D4C; Sat, 14 May 2005 07:37:32 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4285E301.9060604@mac.com> Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 07:37:37 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: estover@nativenerds.com References: <428394B2.20409@att.net> <20050512141024.U37797@wonkity.com> <4285A22C.60707@nativenerds.com> In-Reply-To: <4285A22C.60707@nativenerds.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com cc: FreeBSD - Questions Subject: Re: monitoring and alerting software ???? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 11:37:36 -0000 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... -- -Chuck