I consider myself a small shop (20 users, ~100 servers, ~60TB of storage). We have two sites, a primary and a warm standby. My availability monitoring is performed by Nagios.
My nagios infrastructure consists of an independent nagios installation at each site that actively monitors the machines at its local site, plus all of the network connections, plus the other nagios server. This way if one nagios server dies (or the network connection linking it to the outside world), I still know about it. I have a check_sms script that essentially just sends email to the cellphone provider's SMS gateway (usually something like [email protected]) but I've heard that this is much less common outside of the US. I send this in addition to normal email notifications. Hope that helps! --Matt On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Christofer Hardy <[email protected]> wrote: > So I belong to a mid sized shop, and we have been looking at migrating > away from a bunch of home grown tools, to other tools. > > As part of this discussion, we have been discussing how to deliver the > alerts, be it Paging via TAP, SMS, carrier pigeon, etc. We are a high > uptime shop, so this has reached religious fervor in regards to should > be stick with Paging, should we move to SMS (Via a SMS gateway). > > So I thought I'd ping the group. > > What size shop are you? Small, Medium, Large? > Do you need to get every page? > Do you use SMS or Paging? > > How do you like your solution, and have you found any pitfalls? > > If you could take a few minutes and even just email me (not > necessarily the rest of the group) what you have found, it would be > appreciated. > > Thanks, > > Chris > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > -- LITTLE GIRL: But which cookie will you eat FIRST? COOKIE MONSTER: Me think you have misconception of cookie-eating process. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
