On Fri, 27 Aug 2010, Alex Aminoff wrote:
> Hi folks. I need a better monitoring system. I currently use something I > wrote 10 years ago using parts of Spong and other bits. > ... > 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. A brilliant idea. Later, if you wanted to extend the configuration information you could use SRV records, or DNS comments - assuming you intend to read the DNS zone file in source. Daniel Feenberg > > 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 > _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
