What do you mean with "About the only thing I could ask for is a %-uptime metric over some interval"?
dirk. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bob Apthorpe Sent: 18 November, 2003 9:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SA-list] SA with RRDtool working great here... Hi, I just upgraded to the most recent beta and I haven't noticed any problems. I was shocked that the upgrade worked so smoothly. I'm using Big Sister[1] along with Servers Alive so I already had RRDtool installed. With some minor exceptions, setting up RRDtool was straightforward and I was generating graphs within a few minutes. The exceptions were pretty minor. I couldn't find any documentation on RRDtool support (not surprising for beta code features and to be fair I didn't look too hard) so it took a minute or two to figure out to run the RRD creation script. I made the mistake of setting my RRD directory to C:\Program Files\SAlive\rrd_db because the batch file choked on the space in the path (spaces need quoting or escaping) but I worked around that by reconfiguring to use c:\rrd\salive instead. I had RRDtool installed somewhere under c:\bin\rrdtool rather than c:\Program Files\rrdtool and IIRC I put it there because of that same spaces-in-the-path-name problem. Anyway, I'm extremely happy with Servers Alive, especially now that I've got RRDtool support, saweb, and ps-over-ssh process monitoring on our linux boxes (via the External COM test.) About the only thing I could ask for is a %-uptime metric over some interval but I haven't rummaged through the new version or mailing list enough to know if that's already been planned, implemented, or dismissed. Again, many thanks! -- Bob PS: For those of you in educational institutions cursed with maintaining Blackboard, I have an external tester for the Bb 6 login process (end-to-end, login through logout) so you can detect when your app servers wedge despite the application appearing to respond. Also, if there's any interest, I can finish my LDAP tester (both in properly formatted and documented perl.) [1] Win32 port of clone of Big Brother. Upsides: the code is written in perl, it's mostly platform-neutral, it's protocol-compatible with Big Brother, and it's released under the GPL. Downsides: it's only slightly less irritating to configure than Big Brother, the code base is kind of a mess, it's unreliable under Win32, and it isn't nearly as well-supported as Big Brother. At this point I'd recommend Servers Alive for those dedicated to Win32, otherwise Nagios (ex-NetSaint) if you've got some time and unix expertise. To unsubscribe from a list, send a mail message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] With the following in the body of the message: unsubscribe SAlive To unsubscribe from a list, send a mail message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] With the following in the body of the message: unsubscribe SAlive
