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#276227 - 19/02/2006 15:00 Monitoring health of a Linux box?
Roger carpal tunnel Registered: 18/01/2000 Posts: 5682 Loc: London, UK	I'm looking for something like Microsoft Operations Manager, only for Linux. Unfortunately, I can't figure out which search terms to use. Basically, I'm looking for something that will periodically run a bunch of tests, to check that the various websites and mailing lists that I'm supposed to be hosting are up and running. I could do it with cron, but it'd be nice to have some kind of integrated solution. It would be nice if it was extensible, but it needs to support at least the following: Connect to an arbitrary website and check that the page returned looks sensible. By sensible I mean that it contains a bunch of expected text, rather than an error page. I'm not sure how to do this one without annoying people, but it should have a way to check that a mailing list is working correctly. Maybe just having a dummy mailing list at each domain, with only the test user would suffice. It should be able to check that various daemons are running and responding to connect requests. This means that I can check that my SMTP daemon, IMAP daemon, FTP daemon, etc. are up and running _________________________ -- roger
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#276228 - 19/02/2006 15:03 Re: Monitoring health of a Linux box? [Re: Roger]
wfaulk carpal tunnel Registered: 25/12/2000 Posts: 16706 Loc: Raleigh, NC US	Big Brother comes to mind. I'm sure there are others. _________________________ Bitt Faulk
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#276229 - 19/02/2006 15:06 Re: Monitoring health of a Linux box? [Re: wfaulk]
wfaulk carpal tunnel Registered: 25/12/2000 Posts: 16706 Loc: Raleigh, NC US	The article Building a Network Management System over on Freshmeat seems relevant, too. It includes references to other systems like you're looking for. Nagios looks really nice. I might have to implement that one myself. Edited by wfaulk (19/02/2006 15:09) _________________________ Bitt Faulk
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#276230 - 19/02/2006 15:36 Re: Monitoring health of a Linux box? [Re: wfaulk]
tman carpal tunnel Registered: 24/12/2001 Posts: 5528	Quote: Nagios looks really nice. I might have to implement that one myself. Nagios is flexible but it takes ages to configure. There is a good reason why there are actually companies out there offering services to configure it for you...
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#276231 - 19/02/2006 19:53 Re: Monitoring health of a Linux box? [Re: wfaulk]
genixia Carpal Tunnel Registered: 08/02/2002 Posts: 3411	nagios is excellent. It has some scalability issues, but nothing that will affect you. _________________________ Mk2a 60GB Blue. Serial 030102962 sig.mp3: File Format not Valid.
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#276232 - 19/02/2006 19:57 Re: Monitoring health of a Linux box? [Re: genixia]
genixia Carpal Tunnel Registered: 08/02/2002 Posts: 3411	Oh, I forgot to mention - I have a friend who is testing the use of nagios to monitor his home security, using magnetic door swtiches to break cat5 links. He already has nagios email and page him if his garage freezer outlet cuts out. _________________________ Mk2a 60GB Blue. Serial 030102962 sig.mp3: File Format not Valid.
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#276233 - 20/02/2006 00:47 Re: Monitoring health of a Linux box? [Re: genixia]
gbeer carpal tunnel Registered: 17/12/2000 Posts: 2665 Loc: Manteca, California	Quote: Oh, I forgot to mention - I have a friend who is testing the use of nagios to monitor his home security, using magnetic door swtiches to break cat5 links. He already has nagios email and page him if his garage freezer outlet cuts out. He does that and doesn't have a switch to notify him the freezer door was left open? _________________________ Glenn
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#276234 - 20/02/2006 01:10 Re: Monitoring health of a Linux box? [Re: gbeer]
genixia Carpal Tunnel Registered: 08/02/2002 Posts: 3411	He hasn't had problems with the door, bus has had the outlet trip without him knowing. _________________________ Mk2a 60GB Blue. Serial 030102962 sig.mp3: File Format not Valid.
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#276235 - 20/02/2006 12:54 Re: Monitoring health of a Linux box? [Re: wfaulk]
BAKup addict Registered: 11/11/2001 Posts: 552 Loc: Houston, TX	I'm using Nagios here at my office to monitor the network here. It's easy to work with once you get the hang of the config files. I recomend it over BB. If you're wanting to see how the web interface looks over a live server just send me a PM. _________________________ --Ben 78GB MkIIa, Dead tuner.
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#307107 - 09/02/2008 21:40 Re: Monitoring health of a Linux box? [Re: BAKup]
Roger carpal tunnel Registered: 18/01/2000 Posts: 5682 Loc: London, UK	Originally Posted By: BAKup It's easy to work with once you get the hang of the config files. Old thread, but I finally got around to installing Nagios v3.0rc2. It works pretty well, but the web interface could do with sprucing up... I've currently got it monitoring HTTP, SMTP, SMTP+TLS and IMAPS on my remote server, which is working well -- in that it's monitoring them, not that they're working _________________________ -- roger
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