Re: Remote health test for servers?

[Randy Rodriguez <randy@mercurytech.com>]

Jacob S. wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 16:01:33 -0500
> Randy Rodriguez <randy@mercurytech.com> wrote:
>
> > Let's not forget Big Brother
> > http://www.bb4.com
> > Easier to set up than Nagios, more extensible too.  Good community of 
> > developers and users for support.
>
>
> I saw that one when I was looking. Did I misunderstand something, or is
> it not free software? (free as in food and/or free as in speech)

They have a license the call the Better Than Free License (BTFL). 
Basically, if you sell a service that incorporates BB, you have to 
purchase a license, otherwise it's free.  As per the page: "Simply put, 
if Big Brother is helping you or someone else (in the case of 
outsourcing) make money then you'll need to get a commercial license."

Monitoring your own servers in house, free.  Monitoring a client's 
servers, in house or remote, commercial.

> Thanks,
> Jacob
>
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