On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 02:21:13PM -0400, Michael Garabedian wrote:
Too much trouble to setup...First I will need to install the protocol on all my servers, set the trap at a different server. All my servers are overburneded as it is right now, so that would just make everything slower than hell. Then I need to get an analyser software. When all I need to know is when the system goes down or when a service in unavailable. So some simple software,to check some services,and then tell me when it can't find them.
Let me quote from http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/admin/mon/html/ : ---------------------------------------------------------------------- mon is a general-purpose scheduler and alert management tool used for monitoring service availability and triggering alerts upon failure detection. mon was designed to be open and extensible in the sense that it supports arbitrary monitoring facilities and alert methods via a common interface, all of which are easily implemented with programs in C, Perl, shell, etc., SNMP traps, and special mon traps. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mon is really simple to set up and requires no special software on a monitored system (unlike netsaint). -Kastus