You could also try The Eddie Tool, which is completely
free, and in some ways much more powerful and configurable
than Big Brother.

http://eddie-tool.net/

Cheers
CM


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ed Wilts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 26 July 2003 13:35
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Status Monitoring Software?
> 
> 
> On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 04:56:55PM -0500, Matthew A. Blasinski wrote:
> > I'm running a relatively small scale RedHat 9 server and am 
> wondering if 
> > there are any good  (free/open source?) status monitoring 
> tools that 
> > check if web services, mail services, etc are functioning 
> and alerts an 
> > administrator if they aren't (for example, if the daemon isn't 
> > responding to requests).  I'm thinking something similar to 
> Watchdog or 
> > HP OpenView but on a much smaller scale.  
> 
> For many sites, Big Brother is free.  You only need to purchase a
> license if the systems being monitored are used to actually generate
> money.  It does get confusing at times - a mail server for an 
> ISP would
> need to be licensed, but a mail server for my company would not (since
> mail is not what we use to make our revenue).  I believe that somebody
> has been working on a totally open source version of Big Brother,
> called, I think, Little Sister.
> 
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