On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, Fred Whipple wrote:
> That's helpful. For the software watchdog idea, that sounds
> interesting, but I wonder (and will have to research :-) if it will work
> with the particular problem I'm having. I've got one server that has
> the annoying habbit of running out of RAM and dying. The server isn't
> crashed, and the hardware isn't locked, and in fact you can continue to
> ping it and it will respond nicely. It just doesn't have any more RAM
> or Swap and can't even free-up enough ram to run the "shutdown" or
> "init" commands. While this is obviously an issue in itself, and I'll
> need to figure out why this is happening, it would be nice if the server
> could just reboot itself when it becomes unresponsive.
>
Maybe you want to run Nocol. It's an opensource monitoring tool that does
wonders when it comes to these issues, at least in small and midsized
environments. It also monitors things like hard drive space, network
collissions, performance, etc.
http://www.netplex-tech.com/software/nocol/
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