On Fri, 05 May 2000 11:52:42 PDT, brian moore writes: >On Fri, May 05, 2000 at 11:41:20AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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'.
mon for services and mrtg for nicely graphing things like load, traffic and so on. Look at http://gfrastsackl.org/mrtg/load.html for an example. You can also easily get mon to alert you an a pager or cellphone when there´s something wrong. hth, &rw -- / Robert Waldner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Phone: +43 1 89933 0 Fax x533 \ \ KPNQwest/AT tech staff | Diefenbachg. 35 A-1150 Wien /
