Network Monitoring Application Help, What do you use?

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Bill Moran wrote:
> 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)
The statistics are already there in the Nagios web interface.

>> restart a failed daemon
Could be done with an event handler maybe.

>> syslog parsing
No idea.

>> remote administration
It's web interface can be used as remotely as you deem secure. We use a 
VPN (I work remotely).

> 
> 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.
> 

Nagios can also be very heavily modified with custom plugins. Certainly 
worth looking into. There is a site dedicated to custom plugins at
http://www.nagiosexchange.org.

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