On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 12:38:06PM +0200, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 08:05:53PM -0300,
> Matias G. Lambert ( OSInet ) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
> a message of 36 lines which said:
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> > take a look at http://www.nagios.org
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> Why not mon, much simpler and which has a command-line interface?
Indeed. And, if you're as paranoid as me: run two mon's.
One to be the 'real' mon, one to be the mon-monitor. (ie, if the
machine running mon dies, the other machine will pick it up.)
My mon installation has a silly script that connects to a Portmaster2
with a modem and pages my numeric pager.
It has a nifty little table to convert "what broke" into numeric
codes... ie, the first 3 digits are '555' so I don't accidentally
call the police... then 3 digits for the host (usually derived from
the IP number, sometimes area code..), and 3 digits for 'type of
outage', usually devised from the port number. So if I get a page of
'555250025', I know that SMTP is down on the main mail server.
A procmail trick mails my cell phone, since I was too lazy to set up
a seperate mail-alert for the phone.
This system has alerted me to every outage for the last 6 years and
lets me sleep at night (unless something breaks... but then I'm supposed
to be awake...)
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