[KLUG Members] Re: [LeapList]remote monitoring

[Andrew Anderson]

> Looking for remote monitoring/testing package.  Our web server didn't
> replicate to the RS6000 last night, so data was unavailable.  I want a
> package to not just dummy ping a machine,but to look for a specific page
> and possibly a specific part number just to be sure the
> network/webserver/database server are all working.  I want to be paged,
> faxed, emailed, cell phone when it goes down.

Mon (http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/admin/mon/) is a pretty flexible
tool that we use internally, and has a fairly large community to draw
example monitoring scripts from.  There are also tools out there that can
be used to graph service availability if you need that as well.

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 Andrew Anderson                                              Red Hat, Inc
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