I'm not looking to monitor a massive infrastructure: 3 web sites, 2 mail 
servers (pop,imap,submission port, https webmail), 4 dns servers (including 
lookups to ensure they're not listening but not talking), and one inbound mx. A 
few network points to ping to ensure connectivity throughout my system. 
Scheduled notification windows (for example, during work hours I don't want my 
phone pinged unless it's everything going offline. Off hours I do. Secondary 
notifications if problem persists to other users, or in the event of many 
triggers. That sort of thing). Sensitivity settings (If web server 1 shows down 
for 5 min, that's not a big deal. Another one if it doesn't respond to repeated 
queries within 1 minute is a big deal) A Weekly summary of issues would be 
nice. (especially the 'well it was down for a short bit but we didn't notify as 
per settings')
I don't have a lot of money to throw at this. I DO have detailed internal 
monitoring of our systems  but sometimes that is not entirely useful, due to 
the fact that there are a few 'single points of failure' within our 
network/notification system, not to mention if the monitor itself goes offline 
it's not exactly going to be able to tell me about it. (and that happened once, 
right before the mail server decided to stop receiving mail).

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Eric Esslinger
Information Services Manager - Fayetteville Public Utilities
http://www.fpu-tn.com/
(931)433-1522 ext 165

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