Hi folks. I need a better monitoring system. I currently use something I wrote 10 years ago using parts of Spong and other bits.
I looked at Nagios, which seems to be the most commonly mentioned thing today. The configuration files are not easily hand-editable. This would be OK if there were decent tools to spit them out, but a day of hacking did not find anything simple to install and use. What I need is something so simple I could write it myself from scratch in a couple days if I had a couple days. I don't want SNMP or any sort of agent on the client to be monitored (in my case I'm monitoring my customers' machines) - I just want remote network checks: does it ping, is port 80 responding, that sort of thing. I would like the configuration file to be as simple as possible: definitely no XML, and preferably few parentheses. In fact, how about if my config file is DNS? Start with pinging everything in my domain, if there is an MX record pointing to it check SNMP, if "www" points to it check port 80. For exceptions to that general case, have a config file. I like BigBrother's config file, but BB's implementation is a snarl of shell script that does not do a good job of producing transparent error messages when things are not exactly right. At least for the non-commercial version, which does not appear to be maintained. And BB has agents on the clients too. Or perhaps I should just run nmap on my network every 10 minutes and alert me if there is a diff from the previous results. Prone to false positives I would think. - Alex _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
