From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 21 20:01:35 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F161B16A400 for ; Sun, 21 Jan 2007 20:01:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from valqk@lozenetz.org) Received: from mail.webreality.org (mailserver.webreality.org [217.75.141.5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF46313C44C for ; Sun, 21 Jan 2007 20:01:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from valqk@lozenetz.org) Received: from [192.168.3.20] (unknown [89.190.193.137]) by mail.webreality.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30959FFE0FA; Sun, 21 Jan 2007 22:05:51 +0200 (EET) Message-ID: <45B3C696.7030304@lozenetz.org> Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 22:01:26 +0200 From: Anton Blajev - Valqk User-Agent: Icedove 1.5.0.9 (X11/20061220) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug Hardie References: <45B38E28.1010704@lozenetz.org> <3BBE9819-6CDE-4BE9-A253-8C5B9B83A6DF@lafn.org> In-Reply-To: <3BBE9819-6CDE-4BE9-A253-8C5B9B83A6DF@lafn.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.1.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-webreality-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-webreality-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-webreality-MailScanner-From: valqk@lozenetz.org Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: System & processes monitoring recomendations? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 20:01:36 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 This sounds interesting, I didn't think of that, I'm using nagios just for remote services monitoring, and never thought of monitoring the local services, I've just saw that there are some kind of agents (almost like HP Openview) but I've never got that far, but it's great app. 10x for the advice, if you can show some kind of working configs or link to the config examples this would be just great! Thanks for the good idea! :) Doug Hardie wrote: > > On Jan 21, 2007, at 08:00, Anton Blajev - Valqk wrote: > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Hello Group, >> >> I'm wondering what tool to use for system and processes monitoring? >> For example your disks goes filled and you get a mail, >> the machine has load over 50 for more than an hour and you get a mail... >> Some predefined processes MUST be running so there is some kind of a >> checker and if they stops >> the util starts them immediately. > > I use nagios (its in the ports) for that. It works best if you have > another machine to actually do the monitoring. It will access the > desired services over the network and nag you if there is an issue. It > can also initiate processes on the monitored machine to report status. > You can set the monitoring frequency and there are many options for > notification. I use it on my production servers. I have a number of > custom modules that check our unique services. > > --This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFs8aWzpU6eaWiiWgRAqRXAKC0fGQetb0M5IcehVo5Ab5rKfxCwwCff/Ck tY2CJUQHUxW0tW4swI3WrjY= =Z15/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.