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-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Al Sent: February 23, 2006 4:12 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [hlds] Server monitoring on the cheap I have to give nagios a bump aswell *bump* does exactly what you need to keep a network monitored, you can even plug a mobile phone into your server and have it configured to sms you and wake you up in the middle of the night when your servers fail. Also a nice addon which gives you a webinterface for configuring the nagios config files (www.nagiosql.org) - you can manage the services and servers via the interface the data is stored in a mysql database you hit a button and it will write the config files. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stuart Stegall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 8:06 AM Subject: RE: [hlds] Server monitoring on the cheap > HostMonitor is nice enough. We never really found it to be 100% > effective as sometimes it was give an alert on a server that wasn't down. > Eventually > I came across Netsaint and then Nagios(what netsaint became) ... > Nagios is pretty much perfect. And it's free to boot. Try www.nagios.org. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan Sorenson > Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 12:45 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [hlds] Server monitoring on the cheap > > In my real-life job as a systems and network engineer I was given a > task of finding a product that would monitor both my netwerkin stuff > so far as ports and stats, as well as Windows server processes, and > concentrate on things that don't cost an arm and a leg and a > co-worker's salary per year. > Well, there went HP Openview. > > So I evaluated a dozen or so and found a suprise find that I can't > recommend, but might be worth checking out. It's not quite for a > co-location company, and not quite for a Fortune 500 company, but for > the smaller shops I thought it worth at least mentioning. > > I can't recommend it because it's HostMonitor 5 from KS Software. > http://www.ks-soft.net on your internet dial. I've not found much on > the company and near as I can tell it's probably one guy coding late > into the night in his PJ's with a bottle of vodka at his side and > muttering swear words at Microsoft in Russian. Or maybe that's just me. > > On the other hand, his HostMonitor product beat the crap out of stuff > costing twenty times the price, per year, and though it's not the > prettiest web-page, giving the health of your NOC for under $1000 I > can live with ugly web pages, log to a SQL server, and make my own > pretty reports for manglement. > > On the netwerkin' side you have to supply the MIB to query. > That's a pain when you've routers with 20 different interfaces since > this doesn't automatically identify them as Int FastEthernet0/0 on a > Cisco 3745. > Frankly, I don't care about that so much as this thing will query > Windows Perfmon stats. Want to know CPU usage? It's > there. Want to scan event logs? It's there. Want to telnet to > port 27015 and look for a response? It's there. How about the status > of a single process that isn't a service? It's there. > Alerts can be escalated, yadda yadda yadda. Read the fluff on the web > page above. I don't buy all that stuff either, and I'm still playing > with it against my own network, but at this sort of price I can afford > to do at least premliminary scans with it and use the more specific > tools for other tasks and save on licensing fees. > The support for external batch files, VB scripts, and such are just > icing on the cake. > > Just thought I'd throw it out there for your consideration. > I've no connection with the company, never even knew they existed > prior to a couple of weeks ago, and honestly I think other products do > it better. > But > at his prices I don't care if I get a license and he has a heart > attack tomorrow, I'm saving a wad of cash over the flashier products > and that makes me look good on mahogany row. > > > - Dan > > * Dan Sorenson DoD #1066 A.H.M.C. #35 [EMAIL PROTECTED] * > * Vikings? There ain't no vikings here. Just us honest farmers. * > * The town was burning, the villagers were dead. They didn't need * > * those sheep anyway. That's our story and we're sticking to it. * > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
