On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 01:10:54PM -0600, Eric J Esslinger wrote: > 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).
You may want to check out http://www.panopta.com/ Works well for me with reasonable pricing. Derrick > > __________________________ > Eric Esslinger > Information Services Manager - Fayetteville Public Utilities > http://www.fpu-tn.com/ > (931)433-1522 ext 165 > > This message may contain confidential and/or proprietary information and is > intended for the person/entity to whom it was originally addressed. Any use > by others is strictly prohibited. >
