From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 28 17:50:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp1.sentex.ca (smtp1.sentex.ca [199.212.134.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC23B37B422 for ; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 17:50:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from granite.sentex.net (granite.sentex.ca [199.212.134.1]) by smtp1.sentex.ca (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e7T0oJ775400; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 20:50:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: from chimp.simianscience.com (cage.simianscience.com [64.7.134.1]) by granite.sentex.net (8.8.8/8.6.9) with SMTP id UAA21855; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 20:50:18 -0400 (EDT) From: mike@sentex.net (Mike Tancsa) To: L.Wittebrood@Syntegra.NL ("Lars Wittebrood") Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Netsaint, Big Brother or other ? Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 00:44:34 GMT Message-ID: <39ab06ff.519242801@mail.sentex.net> References: <4.2.2.20000828001235.032d3c38@mail.sentex.net> In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent .99e/32.227 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 28 Aug 2000 12:01:02 -0400, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote: Thanks. But it seems mrtg is not really designed for this task. I do use mrtg extensivly for other types of monitoring, but its not really designed for the same type of system monitoring that Big Brother and Netsaint are. ---Mike >Looked at MRTG yet? www.mrtg.org > > >"Mike Tancsa" wrote in message >news:list.freebsd.questions#4.2.2.20000828001235.032d3c38@mail.sentex.net... >> >> What are people using these days for network services monitoring ? I am >not >> that happy with Big Brother's notification scheme as it does not always >> work as expected. Netsaint looks fairly complete, but I dont know how >> stable it is. Does anyone have any other recommendations ? I need >> something that will do escalations, and can also do pager based >> notifications the way BB does via kermit. >> >> ---Mike >> -------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 >> Network Administration, mike@sentex.net >> Sentex Communications www.sentex.net >> Cambridge, Ontario Canada www.sentex.net/mike >> >> >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > Mike Tancsa (mdtancsa@sentex.net) Sentex Communications Corp, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada "Given enough time, 100 monkeys on 100 routers could setup a national IP network." (KDW2) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message