[KLUG Members] Question on network monitors (i.e. big brother, etc).

[Adam Williams]

>With BB, I think we've got it set to have a hair-trigger.  If something goes
>purple: it pages us.  If something goes red: it pages us.
>It's just a huge pain to have.  For example:  yesterday's snafu was caused
>by a frozen server (don't ask me how).  Instead of seeing just one server
>dead, it decided to not see all the servers.  Then, for those of you who have
>used big  brother, BB says "What happened?  I guess I'll page until I find out".
> All last night, I received pages.  When I was finally able to reboot the
>server, BB didn't even tell me that things were okay.  It just stopped paging.
>That's dumb.
>Anyway, isn't MRTG used for bandwidth monitoring?  I've never worked with
>setting up monitoring tools before, but I am going to now for sure.

Basically yes,  but it can monitor any SNMP value or monitor via external
commands (fping, etc...).  It can execute command sequences based upon
threshold conditions (page, etc...)

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