Re: Command line network monitoring tool
On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 21:54:30 +0000
p <pplaw@pcisys.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 03:09:58PM -0600, Jacob S wrote:
> > On Tue, 07 Dec 2004 16:01:07 -0500
> > Andr?s Rold?n <aroldan@debian.org> wrote:
> >
> > > Michael Madden <madden@cmsrtp.com> writes:
> > >
> > > > Are there any network monitoring tools that monitor the
> > > > availability of network resources (HTTP, IMAP, POP3, IMAP, SSH,
> > > > NNTP, FTP, DNS, RSYNC) that I can run from the command line?
> > > > Right now I'm using a shell script that checks if the machine is
> > > > pingable, but I'm finding that often the service has died but
> > > > the machine is still reachable with ping.
> >
> > > Nagios may help.
> >
> > I'll second that. We're using it for several servers at work with
> > great success. It's even in Sarge now.
>
> i just tried to install "nagios-common" and it
> removed a lot of my good programs--gimp, xine,
> mplayer.... that doesn't even begin to scratch
> the surface. (i'm still trying to access the
> totality of what it removed.) from what's left,
> i may have to rebuild the box. (mplayer won't
> even install now.)
>
> why would a "network monitoring tool" need to
> decimate a system?
Sounds like you had a different problem with your system that you didn't
notice until you tried to install nagios-common.
I am running Sarge, not sid, and I didn't actually complete the install,
but running "apt-get install nagios-common" and "apt-get install
nagios-common nagios-text" did not make apt report any packages that it
would be removing.
If you could post some additional details I am sure it would be helpful
to the Debian developers, as that's obviously not what packages are
"supposed to do".
HTH,
Jacob
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