monitoring and alerting software ????

Philip Hallstrom freebsd at philip.pjkh.com
Thu May 12 10:47:10 PDT 2005


Nagios.

http://www.nagios.org/


On Thu, 12 May 2005, Duane Winner wrote:

> Hello,
>
> This may not be FreeBSD specific, but since I'm running nearly a 100% FreeBSD 
> shop, I figured this would be as good as place as any to ask a question. 
> Also, it might just turn out that the solution for me might be software that 
> runs on FreeBSD.
>
> Does anybody have recommendations for a good solution to alert me while I am 
> not at work if something goes wrong with my infrastucture/network/servers?
> In other words, if I am at home, I need to be alerted if one of my FreeBSD 
> servers go down, but also if the router, firewall or switches go haywire.
>
> I'm thinking along the lines of getting a cell phone, and have a central 
> server with a modem dial my cell and send a text message, either directly or 
> via a 3rd party service, if anything goes wrong. I am the sole responsible 
> admin for babysitting my network and server farm, and we're setting up 
> critical systems that must be 24x7, so now I must be 'on call' 24x7.
>
> Is there anything out there that will assist me with this?
>
> Thanks,
> DW
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