Network Monitoring Application Help, What do you use?

[Bill Moran]

In response to Sean Murphy <smurphy at calarts.edu>:

> I was looking into a Network/Server monitoring application that would do 
> the following
> 
> 
> Must have features
> email/page/sms if one of the rules fail
> has the ability to of course ping the device, ssh into or have someway 
> of checking if a daemon is running.
> 
> Optional but nice features
> reporting statistics and system status (web based)
> restart a failed daemon
> syslog parsing
> remote administration

Nagios is a popular choice for this.  It has a gazillion different types
of checks it can do, but it doesn't do all your nice to haves.

-- 
Bill Moran
Collaborative Fusion Inc.



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