On Wed, 16 Oct 2002 22:59:38 -0700 (PDT)
Juan Teki Cruz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> [crossposted to plug and plug-newbie lists]
> 
> Scenario:
> 
> You have your mail servers, dns servers, web servers,
> etc.  They are on different machines.  You have to
> monitor them.  At the very least you have to monitor:
> -  network connectivity
> -  services
> -  disk space
> -  free memory
> -  load
> 
> Question:
> 
> Ideas on how to monitor them?  Best practices? 
> Recommendations?  Suggestions?  How do I presently do
> it?  
> -  network connectivity and services
>    -  using What's-Up Gold
> -  disk space, free memory, load
>    -  ssh to each box and then do df, free and
>       top/ps/uptime
> 
> I'm thinking - there must be a better way?  SNMP
> perhaps?  But a colleague mentioned this could
> introduce security holes? 
> Recommendations/suggestions/comments would be highly
> appreciated.
> 
> Thanks in advance.

Hi Juan

try to look on mrtg, snmp, nagios, ntop, aide or tripwire, this is
searchable in http://freshmeat.net

HTH

-- 
Jimmy Lim
Operation & Support Team Leader
Tricom 
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