On Sun, Oct 31, 2004 at 02:17:35PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > > Nagios mainly uses SNMP to pull its data - authenitcated but not > > encrypted. Big Sister - Have heard its similar to big brother > > - simple to set up (compared to nagios) and for your small network > > should be more than adequate. Big Brother (and probably big > > sister) have client software that runs on each machine that sends > > the status info back to the display server. > > Yeah, but I want a pulll approach, not a push approach!
take a look at mon. it's a framework for monitoring systems and sending alerts via email, sms, or whatever. it comes with many scripts to test availability of common services (like smtp, ftp, http, etc), and can test pretty much anything as long as you can write a script to do the test. Package: mon Priority: extra Section: admin Installed-Size: 800 Maintainer: Roderick Schertler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: i386 Version: 0.99.2-7 Depends: perl, libmon-perl (>= 0.10), libtime-period-perl, libtime-hires-perl, libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4) Suggests: fping, libauthen-pam-perl, libfilesys-diskspace-perl, libnet-perl, libnet-dns-perl, libnet-ldap-perl, libnet-telnet-perl, libsnmp-perl, libstatistics-descriptive-perl Filename: pool/main/m/mon/mon_0.99.2-7_i386.deb Size: 177160 MD5sum: 35d62495d9befa374227ffae9a9e3b91 Description: monitor hosts/services/whatever and alert about problems "mon" is a tool for monitoring the availability of services. Services may be network-related, environmental conditions, or anything that can be tested with software. If a service is unavailable mon can tell you with syslog, email, your pager or a script of your choice. You can control who gets each alert based on the time of day or day of week, and you can control how often an existing problem is re-alerted. . More information can be found at http://www.kernel.org/software/mon/. craig -- craig sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (part time cyborg) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
