Re: network monitoring
thanks! i'll check it out, im testing out bigbrother at the moment, looks
nice too. im no good at hacking perl but there are other people here that
can im sure i can get em to do it somehow.
thanks again
nate
On Fri, 5 May 2000, brian moore wrote:
bem >On Fri, May 05, 2000 at 11:41:20AM -0700, nate@firetrail.com wrote:
bem >> anyone know of a good tool to do big network monitoring? for about 300-400
bem >> systems
bem >
bem >'mon'. It's used to monitor everything at Transmeta. It's basically a
bem >scheduler for running simple processes that return 0 for 'ok' or
bem >non-zero for 'borked' (and text, if you want). The scheduler calls
bem >other simple programs for alerting and is configurable for things like
bem >settings for days/times and dependencies (ie, if your switch pukes, you
bem >don't want to be alerted for everything hanging off it). It is packaged
bem >in woody, and probably potato as 'mon'.
bem >
bem >If you can hack perl (which is the easy way to write monitor scripts),
bem >it's gangs of fun. My favorite is one that I run that ensures OpenView
bem >hasn't coredumped. I love the irony. :)
bem >
bem >> needs to run on linux/freebsd. we are using nocol now i think but its not
bem >> robust enough anymore.
bem >
bem >I love mon. It also has a very helpful mailing list.
bem >
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