Does anyone out there have a set of scripts (or a commercial product) that is used to monitor a set of servers including sendmail, dns, etc and page/email people as necessary. I had written such a set of scripts a while back but that was too many years ago. Thanks Bora
You might want to check out netsaint... www.netsaint.org... very nice... we use it for monitoring our fair-size network, and i find it very robust and stable. Thanks, jason On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Bora Akyol wrote:
Does anyone out there have a set of scripts (or a commercial product) that is used to monitor a set of servers including sendmail, dns, etc and page/email people as necessary.
I had written such a set of scripts a while back but that was too many years ago.
Thanks
Bora
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On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Bora Akyol wrote: Try nocol, or BB. (depends where you wanna run it, you can also use Whats-Up gold if running on NT). --Ariel
Does anyone out there have a set of scripts (or a commercial product) that is used to monitor a set of servers including sendmail, dns, etc and page/email people as necessary.
I had written such a set of scripts a while back but that was too many years ago.
Thanks
Bora
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On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Bora Akyol <akyol@akyol.org> wrote:
Does anyone out there have a set of scripts (or a commercial product) that is used to monitor a set of servers including sendmail, dns, etc and page/email people as necessary.
Try NetSaint, www.netsaint.org. It does exactly what you described, and very well. It's also completely Web-based, which is handy when you're not on a machine you can install a client on (or the client doesn't support your chosen OS). There are lots of other monitoring tools, depending on what you want. We considered Micromuse NetCool (netcool.com) and a bunch of other commercial ones, but NetSaint meets our requirements nicely so we've had no reason to switch. Cheers, Troy -- Troy Davis chief packet pusher - internet services manager Loudeye Technologies, Inc. - www.loudeye.com, NASDAQ: LOUD
We are primarily using RedAlert [www.redalert.com] for public-internet monitoring. That was set up before I joined the company. Inside our cage, our NT folks have some NT boxes running SNMPc and listening for traps from our load balancers, and I believe they're also using some monitoring function of WebTrends. For a setup with 50 webservers, 45 NT application servers, a mail server, 2 YP servers, 2 database servers, and matched pairs of Extreme switches, Cisco 12008's, Alteon 180e's, and Arrowpoint CS150's, the combination of RedAlert and WebTrends is keeping up decently. At some point, we may add another layer of monitoring with NetSaint, or bb if I can keep it from pulverizing the host. As others have pointed out, NetSaint is also a very good alternative. I was evaluating BigBrother, but it was beating the hell out of the machine I was running it on. Then again, so were the developers :/... -j -- -Jonathan Disher -Systems and Network Engineer, Web Operations -Internet Pictures Corporation, Palo Alto, CA -[v] (650) 388-0497 | [p] (877) 446-9311 | [e] jdisher@eng.ipix.com On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Bora Akyol wrote:
Does anyone out there have a set of scripts (or a commercial product) that is used to monitor a set of servers including sendmail, dns, etc and page/email people as necessary.
I had written such a set of scripts a while back but that was too many years ago.
Thanks
Bora
On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 10:47:08AM -0800, Bora Akyol wrote:
Does anyone out there have a set of scripts (or a commercial product) that is used to monitor a set of servers including sendmail, dns, etc and page/email people as necessary.
If you have a Windows box handy, What'sUp is nice and basic. The old version, not this new "Gold" thing that they charge 8 billion dollars a copy for.
Does anyone out there have a set of scripts (or a commercial product) that is used to monitor a set of servers including sendmail, dns, etc and
What'sUp gold is pretty good, but if you are looking for decent amount of functionality at a relatively low price, I think Intermapper is decent. It can be used for mapping and monitoring the network as well as setting up probes to verify certain services/servers are up and available. The one thing that seems to be a big hurdle with running it is that it requires a Macintosh to run. Sometimes that might go against a companies OS platform, or just plain religion. Check it out at www.intermapper.com. Tony -----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of Shawn McMahon Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2000 9:05 AM To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: Server Monitoring On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 10:47:08AM -0800, Bora Akyol wrote: page/email people as necessary. If you have a Windows box handy, What'sUp is nice and basic. The old version, not this new "Gold" thing that they charge 8 billion dollars a copy for.
When I worked at Xerox we used 'Enterprise Monitor', which has now been renamed to ipMonitor, it's a very good product, supports every possible way of notifying you (numeric pager, text pager, SMS, dial out, email, etc, you get the idea) their website is at: http://www.mediahouse.com The downfall? It runs on WindowsNT/2k, although if you run a dedicated machine for it, turn off absolutely everything you can that isn't vital in w2k, and don't let anyone use the machine, it shouldn't cause any problems. (I haven't noticed any leaks in the monitoring program itself) Matthew S. Hallacy XtraTyme Technologies On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Tony Mumm wrote:
Does anyone out there have a set of scripts (or a commercial product) that is used to monitor a set of servers including sendmail, dns, etc and
On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 10:47:08AM -0800, Bora Akyol wrote: page/email people as necessary.
If you have a Windows box handy, What'sUp is nice and basic.
The old version, not this new "Gold" thing that they charge 8 billion dollars a copy for.
On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 10:47:08AM -0800, Bora Akyol said at one point in time:
Does anyone out there have a set of scripts (or a commercial product) that is used to monitor a set of servers including sendmail, dns, etc and page/email people as necessary.
I had written such a set of scripts a while back but that was too many years ago.
Thanks
Bora
there is also sysmon (http://www.sysmon.org/) while not as robust as netsaint, its small, fast, and a really simple config file which can be dynamically created with little problem. its also reliable. i had a box thta was running a very infant version of it for >1yr and it didn't hiccup once. -r -- echo "send pgp key" | mail ravi@cow.org ; lynx http://cow.org ; echo "!gc" "Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish." -- Albert Einstein
Speaking on that note, you probally do not want the most recent version (yet), as it represents a major overhaul and I'm still working all the kinks out of it. I would suggest sticking with 0.83.2 version which is up for ftp at ftp://puck.nether.net/pub/jared/. I've gotten most of the bugs worked out in the rework of the code and new config file. There are some reputable (well, everyone is reputable in someones eyes) providers that run sysmon in a fairly large environment without problems. Because of the rework of config parser, I will be able to add all the feature requests that people have been nagging me for awhile, as I can add them, so feel free to ask. - Jared On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 11:29:50AM -0500, Ravi Pina wrote:
On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 10:47:08AM -0800, Bora Akyol said at one point in time:
Does anyone out there have a set of scripts (or a commercial product) that is used to monitor a set of servers including sendmail, dns, etc and page/email people as necessary.
I had written such a set of scripts a while back but that was too many years ago.
Thanks
Bora
there is also sysmon (http://www.sysmon.org/)
while not as robust as netsaint, its small, fast, and a really simple config file which can be dynamically created with little problem.
its also reliable. i had a box thta was running a very infant version of it for >1yr and it didn't hiccup once.
-r
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Ariel Biener -
Bora Akyol -
Jared Mauch -
Jason Blakey -
Jonathan Disher -
Matthew S. Hallacy -
ravi pina -
Shawn McMahon -
Tony Mumm -
Troy Davis