Network Monitoring Tools

[Ankush Grover]

On 11/17/05, Ki Song <ki at knifecenter.com> wrote:
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> > From: "Daniel B. Thurman" <dant at cdkkt.com>
> > Reply-To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> > Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 07:59:48 -0800
> > To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> > Subject: RE: Network Monitoring Tools
> >
> >> From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com
> >> [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Ki Song
> >> Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2005 6:08 AM
> >> To: For users of Fedora Core releases
> >> Subject: Network Monitoring Tools
> >>
> >>
> >> Our company is having some issues with a web hosting provider.
> >> The server we
> >> have with them (at a remote location) crashes ... sometimes
> >> more than once a
> >> week.
> >>
> >> We are an e-commerce company, so whenever our site is down, we
> >> are losing
> >> orders!
> >>
> >> Is there a network monitoring tool that I can install on a
> >> machine within
> >> our own network that will monitor the server uptime of our
> >> server that is at
> >> a remote location?
> >>
> >> I want a tool that will monitor the server, make sure certain
> >> services are
> >> working, and then, if they are not, to either text message me,
> >> or e-mail me.
> >>
> >
> > Check out nagios and/or cacti.  Cacti and Nagios uses snmp, I believe
> > and nagios is quite extensive and flexible IMO.  Not sure if it is
> > overkill for your needs or hard to setup but I used it for my 13+
> > home systems.  Quite nice and it lets me know immediately if a
> > system is down or if resources are being depleted. You can use
> > pagers and email notification and perhaps send a message to your
> > cell phone.
> >
> > Dan
> >
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> Thanks, Dan, for the info. However, I believe those programs would be
> overkill.
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> So far, the program I am most intrigued in are bigbrother and mon.
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> Does anyone have any information on how to obtain, install, and configure
> mon?
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> hey,


checkout an example on mon
http://www.kernel.org/software/mon/example.cf

Regards

Ankush
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