Re: Server monitoring

2012-07-02 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 5:33 PM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > do you guyz think that "*.* @syslog-server" is a good option to use. > are you guys forwarding specific messages or using *.* > > i have listed servers > > 3 KVM qemu (vertualization) > 3 Squid servers. > 2 Samba storage servers. > 2 fi

Re: Server monitoring

2012-07-02 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
do you guyz think that "*.* @syslog-server" is a good option to use. are you guys forwarding specific messages or using *.* i have listed servers 3 KVM qemu (vertualization) 3 Squid servers. 2 Samba storage servers. 2 firewall (IPCOP) and more to come.. mailserver. VOIP e.t.c in this kind

Re: Server monitoring

2012-07-02 Thread Denis Witt
On 02.07.2012 12:06, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: as you all vote for loganalyzer but i may also want to send an prompt alert on my cellphone via sms or VIA email. so do loganalyzer support this feature? No (AFAIK), but Nagios does. E-Mail works out of the box. For SMS you will need some kind o

Re: Server monitoring

2012-07-02 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
as you all vote for loganalyzer but i may also want to send an prompt alert on my cellphone via sms or VIA email. so do loganalyzer support this feature? Thanks, On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 9:26 PM, Denis Witt wrote: > On 29.06.2012 12:46, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > >> i want your suggestion in i

Re: Server monitoring

2012-06-29 Thread Denis Witt
On 29.06.2012 12:46, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: i want your suggestion in installting a centralized syslog server with web interface. I also use rsyslog and LogAnalyzer. For crucial services I also use Nagios and Munin. Nagios also send me push-notifications on my Phone if any listed servic

Re: Server monitoring

2012-06-29 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 29 Jun 2012 15:46:55 +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > i want your suggestion in installting a centralized syslog server with > web interface. > there are many option on the web it is difficult for me to choose the > right one, i am confuse which way to go. so my question to old pros is

RE: Server monitoring

2012-06-29 Thread Kaplan, Andrew H.
Hello -- I am using LogAnalyzer as my central log server. There is a procedure available at the following url: http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/centralized-logging-web-interface for the installation. I have the application running on a virtual machine, and it has been a productive add-on fo

Re: server monitoring

2012-05-20 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Hi, On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 11:01 AM, David Sastre Medina wrote: > I know nagios is pretty standard, but what most people is not > telling is most its developers fleed. You should check Icinga instead. > https://www.icinga.org/2011/11/03/icinga-vs-nagios-a-developers-comparison/ > My personal cho

Re: server monitoring

2012-05-19 Thread Jeff
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 03:10:55PM +0200, Stanis??aw Findeisen wrote: > Hi > > What tools would you recommend for monitoring the following on a server? : > > * kernel + process images in memory PCP can be configured to collect a large number of system level performance and network metrics, and

Re: server monitoring

2012-05-15 Thread Brad Alexander
While I agree with many of the respondents that Nagios will do most of what you want through the plugins (though I'm relatively new to Nagios), I just wanted to toss a couple of others out there. * OSSEC (http://ossec.net) is a host-based intrusion detection system (HIDS). It is primarily email-ba

Re: server monitoring

2012-05-15 Thread David Sastre Medina
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 03:10:55PM +0200, Stanisław Findeisen wrote: > What tools would you recommend for monitoring the following on a server? : I'd say you need several different things here: > * kernel + process images in memory > * shape of the process tree -snmpd -cgroups configuration, if

RE: server monitoring

2012-05-14 Thread Bonno Bloksma
Hi, >> As far as a general monitoring solution is concerned, I would >> recommend the Nagios Core application. I have been using it for some >> time, and it does have plugins that can handle most, if not all of the >> items you listed in your e-mail. I have also deployed another server that >>

Re: server monitoring

2012-05-14 Thread Johann Spies
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 03:10:55PM +0200, Stanisław Findeisen wrote: I support the reference to Nagios. We have used Munin together with Nagios when I was system administrator up to 2 years ago. Munin can be configured to use nagios' notifying system and provides nice graphical information. Rega

Re: server monitoring

2012-05-14 Thread Glenn English
On May 14, 2012, at 12:15 PM, shthead wrote: > As the other posters suggest, Nagios is great for monitoring services I used to have a significant Nagios system set up, and it did indeed do almost anything I needed. But if your needs aren't too big, take a look at Monit. It's a whole lot smalle

Re: server monitoring

2012-05-14 Thread shthead
On 14/05/2012 9:34 PM, Kaplan, Andrew H. wrote: Hello -- As far as a general monitoring solution is concerned, I would recommend the Nagios Core application. I have been using it for some time, and it does have plugins that can handle most, if not all of the items you listed in your e-mail. I

Re: server monitoring

2012-05-14 Thread rjc
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 02:32:32PM BST, Denis Witt wrote: > Try remote logging using syslog-ng. rsyslog (Debian's default) supports remote logging. Regards, -- rjc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@li

RE: server monitoring

2012-05-14 Thread Kaplan, Andrew H.
Hello -- As far as a general monitoring solution is concerned, I would recommend the Nagios Core application. I have been using it for some time, and it does have plugins that can handle most, if not all of the items you listed in your e-mail. I have also deployed another server that utilizes

Re: server monitoring

2012-05-14 Thread Denis Witt
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/).

Re: server monitoring program

2002-12-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 01:15:19PM -0500, Kevin Coyner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Looking for a recommendation of a server monitoring program to use. > > I'm responsible for serveral different websites that are run on > independent ISP/hosts. A couple of these sites are on Win2K boxes, and >

Re: server monitoring program

2002-12-11 Thread Gene
nagios ntop good luck. /gene Kevin Coyner wrote: Looking for a recommendation of a server monitoring program to use. I'm responsible for serveral different websites that are run on independent ISP/hosts. A couple of these sites are on Win2K boxes, and a couple on Linux. I'm looking for a pro

Re: server monitoring program

2002-12-10 Thread nate
Kevin Coyner said: > This looks quite good, but do I need to have a Snips process of some type > running on the Windows webservers that I need to monitor? you wanted network monitoring. So, that means no processes on the servers, only the monitoring system. The example monitors a ton of different

Re: server monitoring program

2002-12-10 Thread Kevin Coyner
On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 10:42:16AM -0800, nate wrote.. > Kevin Coyner said: > > > > Looking for a recommendation of a server monitoring program to use. > > for plain old fashioned monitoring I reccomend SNIPS > > http://www.netplex-tech.com/software/snips/ > > sample: > > http://snips.aph

Re: server monitoring program

2002-12-10 Thread Nico Meijer
Hi Kevin, > I'm looking for a program that does simple testing to see if these sites > are "just up and running" (i.e. as simple as a periodic ping). Almost > needless to say, I'm not on the same network as these machines, so > firewalls will be present on both my end and the server end. Haven't

Re: server monitoring program

2002-12-10 Thread Gene
check out -> http://www.nagios.org, nagios could monitor servers services as well as other core infrastructures... /gene Mikael Jirari wrote: I know bb4 do that quite well and it's portable on unix and windows. I think mrtg do something like that as well (disk use, load of the processor) ---

RE: server monitoring program

2002-12-10 Thread Doug MacFarlane
On 10 Dec 2002, 18:27:46, Mikael Jirari wrote: > > I know bb4 do that quite well and it's portable on unix and windows. > I think mrtg do something like that as well (disk use, load of the > processor) Sitescope from Freshwater Software downloads a page, and then downloads it again as often as yo

Re: server monitoring program

2002-12-10 Thread nate
Kevin Coyner said: > > Looking for a recommendation of a server monitoring program to use. for plain old fashioned monitoring I reccomend SNIPS http://www.netplex-tech.com/software/snips/ sample: http://snips.aphroland.org/ nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subjec

RE: server monitoring program

2002-12-10 Thread Mikael Jirari
Title: RE: server monitoring program I know bb4 do that quite well and it's portable on unix and windows. I think mrtg do something like that as well (disk use, load of the processor) -Original Message- From: Kevin Coyner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 10 December 2002 18: