thanks! i'll check it out, im testing out bigbrother at the moment, looks nice too. im no good at hacking perl but there are other people here that can im sure i can get em to do it somehow.
thanks again nate On Fri, 5 May 2000, brian moore wrote: bem >On Fri, May 05, 2000 at 11:41:20AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: bem >> anyone know of a good tool to do big network monitoring? for about 300-400 bem >> systems bem > bem >'mon'. It's used to monitor everything at Transmeta. It's basically a bem >scheduler for running simple processes that return 0 for 'ok' or bem >non-zero for 'borked' (and text, if you want). The scheduler calls bem >other simple programs for alerting and is configurable for things like bem >settings for days/times and dependencies (ie, if your switch pukes, you bem >don't want to be alerted for everything hanging off it). It is packaged bem >in woody, and probably potato as 'mon'. bem > bem >If you can hack perl (which is the easy way to write monitor scripts), bem >it's gangs of fun. My favorite is one that I run that ensures OpenView bem >hasn't coredumped. I love the irony. :) bem > bem >> needs to run on linux/freebsd. we are using nocol now i think but its not bem >> robust enough anymore. bem > bem >I love mon. It also has a very helpful mailing list. bem > bem >-- bem >Brian Moore | Of course vi is God's editor. bem > Sysadmin, C/Perl Hacker | If He used Emacs, He'd still be waiting bem > Usenet Vandal | for it to load on the seventh day. bem > Netscum, Bane of Elves. bem > bem > bem >-- bem >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null bem > ::: http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2:04pm up 22 days, 22:07, 1 user, load average: 1.01, 1.02, 1.00
