over here we also used tools like Big Brother.
----- Original Message ----- From: "brian moore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian user mailinglist" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, May 06, 2000 02:52 Subject: Re: network monitoring > On Fri, May 05, 2000 at 11:41:20AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > anyone know of a good tool to do big network monitoring? for about 300-400 > > systems > > 'mon'. It's used to monitor everything at Transmeta. It's basically a > scheduler for running simple processes that return 0 for 'ok' or > non-zero for 'borked' (and text, if you want). The scheduler calls > other simple programs for alerting and is configurable for things like > settings for days/times and dependencies (ie, if your switch pukes, you > don't want to be alerted for everything hanging off it). It is packaged > in woody, and probably potato as 'mon'. > > If you can hack perl (which is the easy way to write monitor scripts), > it's gangs of fun. My favorite is one that I run that ensures OpenView > hasn't coredumped. I love the irony. :) > > > needs to run on linux/freebsd. we are using nocol now i think but its not > > robust enough anymore. > > I love mon. It also has a very helpful mailing list. > > -- > Brian Moore | Of course vi is God's editor. > Sysadmin, C/Perl Hacker | If He used Emacs, He'd still be waiting > Usenet Vandal | for it to load on the seventh day. > Netscum, Bane of Elves. > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
