[CentOS] Monitoring services

2011-11-27 Thread Kenneth Porter
What's available to remotely monitor services? What I'd like is something that can run scripts for each service to connect to a port and verify that it's up, and then send me an SMS message (phone text) to let me know which, if any, are down. Also, does a script exist that checks all the servic

Re: [CentOS] Monitoring services

2011-11-27 Thread Corey Henderson
On 11/27/2011 4:01 PM, Kenneth Porter wrote: > What's available to remotely monitor services? What I'd like is something > that can run scripts for each service to connect to a port and verify that > it's up, and then send me an SMS message (phone text) to let me know which, > if any, are down. >

Re: [CentOS] Monitoring services

2011-11-27 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Sunday, November 27, 2011 4:22 PM -0700 Corey Henderson wrote: > None that I'm aware of. If you're going to write one, keep in mind that > some init scripts list as "on" in chkconfig and run on boot but don't > actually launch a process. True. I was thinking that a script could run "chkcon

Re: [CentOS] Monitoring services

2011-11-27 Thread John Broome
On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 18:01, Kenneth Porter wrote: > What's available to remotely monitor services? What I'd like is something > that can run scripts for each service to connect to a port and verify that > it's up, and then send me an SMS message (phone text) to let me know which, > if any, are

Re: [CentOS] Monitoring services

2011-11-27 Thread Alan McKay
Nagios is probably the most popular, and is pretty powerful and relatively easy to write your own plugins for. I have to look at this in my new job in the next month or so. I'm going to have a look at Zenoss and if that does not pan out and nothing else turns up I'll fall back to Nagios. Really

Re: [CentOS] Monitoring services

2011-11-27 Thread Craig White
On Sun, 2011-11-27 at 20:56 -0500, Alan McKay wrote: > Nagios is probably the most popular, and is pretty powerful and > relatively easy to write your own plugins for. > > I have to look at this in my new job in the next month or so. I'm > going to have a look at Zenoss and if that does not pan o

Re: [CentOS] Monitoring services

2011-11-27 Thread Yu Watanabe
>Nagios is probably the most popular, and is pretty powerful and >relatively easy to write your own plugins for. > >I have to look at this in my new job in the next month or so. I'm >going to have a look at Zenoss and if that does not pan out and >nothing else turns up I'll fall back to Nagios. >