Re: server monitoring

[Denis Witt <denis.witt@concepts-and-training.de>]

On 14.05.2012 15:10, Stanisław Findeisen wrote:

> What tools would you recommend for monitoring the following on a server? :

> I think this calls for a customizable solution with plugins (or so). Is
> there any such thing in Debian? How reliable is it?

I recommend Nagios (http://www.nagios.org/). I'm not sure if any of your 
checks are supported out of the box but you can easily create your own 
plugins. Nagios also supports remote monitoring.

> How about reporting? Logging would be good but logging to a local file
> is problematic as that could be compromised on a server hack...

Try remote logging using syslog-ng.

Best regards
Denis