Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2001 09:03:59 +1100 From: Stanley Hopcroft <Stanley.Hopcroft@IPAustralia.Gov.AU> To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: network management Message-ID: <20011215090358.C388@IPAustralia.Gov.AU> In-Reply-To: <20011214162102.B5086-100000@nts.umd.edu>; from missing@nts.umd.edu on Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 04:27:57PM -0500 References: <20011215081404.A388@IPAustralia.Gov.AU> <20011214162102.B5086-100000@nts.umd.edu>
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Deear Sir, On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 04:27:57PM -0500, Tony wrote: > > > But NetSaint is not advertised as an snmp monitor. > http://www.netsaint.org/docs/0_0_6/about.html#whatis > Also, from what I understand, Netcool can do application monitoring. Do not know about __Netcool__; if by application monitoring you mean the simulated use of the application and checking the output for 'normal' (below some application dependedent critical threshold) responses, then Netsaint can do that by scheduling your check of that service. It comes with simpler 'plugins' that do things such as checks of RADIUS, TCP connections - including banner checks -, HTTP responses match a regex, DNS queries, RTA and PLR (ie ping stats below thresholds), and a framework for making SNMP queries but if the supplied plugins are not sufficient, almost anyone can write their own. > How does Netsaint scale ? I may just have to go check the source myself. Netsaint does nothing more than schedule service checks; each check is execed in a forked copy. Netsaint has support for . (early) an embedded Perl interpreter (like mod_apache) to avoid forking and loading Perl for checks written in Perl. . (early) for configuration in Database, and host/service status written to DB (mysql and postgres I think) . distributed monitoring My employer is using it to monitor 133 hosts (mainly on the one switched LAN but also on a small WAN) and nearly 300 services. People use it for up to a 1000 hosts I think. > > -Tony > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message Thank you, Yours sincerely. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stanley Hopcroft Network Specialist ------------------------------------------------------------------------ '...No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were. Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee...' from Meditation 17, J Donne. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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