Re: network monitoring
over here we also used tools like Big Brother.
----- Original Message -----
From: "brian moore" <bem@cmc.net>
To: "Debian user mailinglist" <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 06, 2000 02:52
Subject: Re: network monitoring
> On Fri, May 05, 2000 at 11:41:20AM -0700, nate@firetrail.com wrote:
> > anyone know of a good tool to do big network monitoring? for about
300-400
> > systems
>
> 'mon'. It's used to monitor everything at Transmeta. It's basically a
> scheduler for running simple processes that return 0 for 'ok' or
> non-zero for 'borked' (and text, if you want). The scheduler calls
> other simple programs for alerting and is configurable for things like
> settings for days/times and dependencies (ie, if your switch pukes, you
> don't want to be alerted for everything hanging off it). It is packaged
> in woody, and probably potato as 'mon'.
>
> If you can hack perl (which is the easy way to write monitor scripts),
> it's gangs of fun. My favorite is one that I run that ensures OpenView
> hasn't coredumped. I love the irony. :)
>
> > needs to run on linux/freebsd. we are using nocol now i think but its
not
> > robust enough anymore.
>
> I love mon. It also has a very helpful mailing list.
>
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