Monitoring tool

[Matthew Bettinger]

On Thursday 14 August 2003 08:23 am, Ben Dover wrote:
> I am looking for a monitoring tool that will notify my cell phone
> when my FreeBSD box is down or off line.  It could be as simple as an
> application that runs on another FreeBSD box or Win box and pings the
> server and when it doesn't respond to pings it sends and alert to my
> cell phone.  I'm sure there are more sophisticated programs out there
> to alert server status and I would be interested in those too but
> something basic to get started would be fine.  Thanks

We run swatch over here.  Works well.  
/usr/ports/security/swatch

regards,
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Matthew Bettinger
System Administrator
Champion Elevators, Inc.
Houston, Texas 77061
713.640.8500
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