Topic: remote uptime monitoring

[malden7794]

Anybody know of a way to auto remote monitor the status of multiple servers and then be notified if a problem comes up?

Sysmon & nagios are for local monitoring.

Thanks!

malden

[Reinhold]

malden

Happily disagreeing  
Both sysmon/nagios are effectively "online" (in an ebay/dir) so monitoring from the outside is quite possible - albeit not really automatic with plain sysmon.
NAGIOS is a realllllllly big gun - what you are saying seems outright unfair Have a 2nd look: http://www.nagios.org/screenshot.php

In addition you might consider:
- mrtg with a little scripting like in: http://www.e-smith.org/docs/howto/contrib/mrtg-howto.htm
- monit http://www.tildeslash.com/monit/ (very versatile but no contrib ?)

now: What's the "status of multiple servers"?
Maybe you need to specify exactly what you really want/need.
Maybe a simple cgi  http://www.nathandickman.com/scripts/ will be closer to what you want .-)

Regards
Reinhold

[tonie]

Hi Malden,

You can try nPulse  http://freshmeat.net/projects/npulse/
it's old, simple and it is working... I use it myself to monitor 23 server on severel locations. If one of the servers is down i get a email from nPulse.

Regards,
Tonie

[Bernt]

I use this at work.
http://www.bb4.org/ running on a Win2k server.

I will give it a try and install it on SME  someday but I'm not a Linux expert so it would be nice to see a HowTo for SME Server.

[policymap]

have a look at www.jffnms.org  

[malden7794]

Thanks for all the replies!!!

nPulse seems to be just what I was looking for. Very easy to work with.