Re: live server monitoring graphs

2013-01-05 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 10:08 AM, Klistvud klist...@gmail.com wrote:
 Dne, 04. 01. 2013 14:26:27 je Muhammad Yousuf Khan napisal(a):


 I have 6 core Linux server and all of them are X terminal no Desktop
 is installed on our server. as per my finding with GKrellM it is a
 desktop application. i have no problem with one desktop machine. i
 think i can manage one machine with wide monitor 22 inch

 so what i was asking. can i install one Debian machine with with
 Desktop environment only for viewing GKrellM output but on the other
 hand on all X terminals i could install a client module of GKrellM
 just for collecting information and throwing it to the server.

 is that possible?


 Thanks.


 Perhaps conky suits your needs better than gkrellm. Conky can gather all the
 data you require and can run in headless mode, e.g. over ssh. In addition,
 it doesn't need a desktop environment. You just ssh into your server and
 launch the non-gui version of conky. There is no conky server module, you
 just have to install the conky client on each of your servers.


Thanks its helpful. i should try this.

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live server monitoring graphs

2013-01-04 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
is there any software which can show me live performance graphs of
every server. for example.

Process graphs.
Hard Drive read and write graphs.
Network traffic graph.
RAM utilization graph.

so that in one monitor/LCD  i can see multiple graphs of multiple
servers and monitor them live.

Thanks,

MYK


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Re: live server monitoring graphs

2013-01-04 Thread Darac Marjal
On Fri, Jan 04, 2013 at 05:20:15PM +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote:
 is there any software which can show me live performance graphs of
 every server. for example.
 
 Process graphs.
 Hard Drive read and write graphs.
 Network traffic graph.
 RAM utilization graph.
 
 so that in one monitor/LCD  i can see multiple graphs of multiple
 servers and monitor them live.

There are various almost live graphing solutions (munin, collectd,
cricket), but if you need real-time data, have a look at the venerable
GKrellM (packages: gkrellm, gkrellmd and gkrell*). That has a client-server 
mode whereby you can run one instance in a headless, data-gathering mode on 
your server and then another instance on your desktop to display the data.

For real-time monitoring, I've not found anything better than GKrellM
in terms of power and ease-of-use).



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Re: live server monitoring graphs

2013-01-04 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 5:37 PM, Darac Marjal mailingl...@darac.org.uk wrote:
 On Fri, Jan 04, 2013 at 05:20:15PM +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote:
 is there any software which can show me live performance graphs of
 every server. for example.

 Process graphs.
 Hard Drive read and write graphs.
 Network traffic graph.
 RAM utilization graph.

 so that in one monitor/LCD  i can see multiple graphs of multiple
 servers and monitor them live.

 There are various almost live graphing solutions (munin, collectd,
 cricket), but if you need real-time data, have a look at the venerable
 GKrellM (packages: gkrellm, gkrellmd and gkrell*). That has a client-server 
 mode whereby you can run one instance in a headless, data-gathering mode on 
 your server and then another instance on your desktop to display the data.

 For real-time monitoring, I've not found anything better than GKrellM
 in terms of power and ease-of-use).


GKreIIM seems very near to my requirement but it is a desktop
application.i have no problem setting up one Desktop node for
monitoring but our all servers are none-GUI. so is it possible that i
could connect none GUI clients to one GUI monitor server.


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Re: live server monitoring graphs

2013-01-04 Thread Darac Marjal
On Fri, Jan 04, 2013 at 06:03:33PM +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote:
 On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 5:37 PM, Darac Marjal mailingl...@darac.org.uk wrote:
  On Fri, Jan 04, 2013 at 05:20:15PM +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote:
  is there any software which can show me live performance graphs of
  every server. for example.
 
  Process graphs.
  Hard Drive read and write graphs.
  Network traffic graph.
  RAM utilization graph.
 
  so that in one monitor/LCD  i can see multiple graphs of multiple
  servers and monitor them live.
 
  There are various almost live graphing solutions (munin, collectd,
  cricket), but if you need real-time data, have a look at the venerable
  GKrellM (packages: gkrellm, gkrellmd and gkrell*). That has a 
  client-server mode whereby you can run one instance in a headless, 
  data-gathering mode on your server and then another instance on your 
  desktop to display the data.
 
  For real-time monitoring, I've not found anything better than GKrellM
  in terms of power and ease-of-use).
 
 
 GKreIIM seems very near to my requirement but it is a desktop
  ^^ gkrellm (Golf, Kilo, Romeo, Echo, Lima, Lima, Mike)
 application.i have no problem setting up one Desktop node for
 monitoring but our all servers are none-GUI. so is it possible that i
 could connect none GUI clients to one GUI monitor server.

No. The server is the non-GUI part. There is (as far as I know) no
non-GUI client for GKrellM. For the server, have a look at the
'gkrellmd' package which should provide you with the minimal non-GUI
daemon.

However, GKrellM also has a limitation that it's also one client to
one server. Depending on how many servers you have, you might need a
particularly wide monitor :)



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Re: live server monitoring graphs

2013-01-04 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan

 No. The server is the non-GUI part. There is (as far as I know) no
 non-GUI client for GKrellM. For the server, have a look at the
 'gkrellmd' package which should provide you with the minimal non-GUI
 daemon.

 However, GKrellM also has a limitation that it's also one client to
 one server. Depending on how many servers you have, you might need a
 particularly wide monitor :)


i think i did not communicated my question properly. what i mean about
non-gui clients is not about the software but a server client
environment. here is what i want to explain.

I have 6 core Linux server and all of them are X terminal no Desktop
is installed on our server. as per my finding with GKrellM it is a
desktop application. i have no problem with one desktop machine. i
think i can manage one machine with wide monitor 22 inch

so what i was asking. can i install one Debian machine with with
Desktop environment only for viewing GKrellM output but on the other
hand on all X terminals i could install a client module of GKrellM
just for collecting information and throwing it to the server.

is that possible?


Thanks.


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Re: live server monitoring graphs

2013-01-04 Thread Klistvud

Dne, 04. 01. 2013 14:26:27 je Muhammad Yousuf Khan napisal(a):


I have 6 core Linux server and all of them are X terminal no Desktop
is installed on our server. as per my finding with GKrellM it is a
desktop application. i have no problem with one desktop machine. i
think i can manage one machine with wide monitor 22 inch

so what i was asking. can i install one Debian machine with with
Desktop environment only for viewing GKrellM output but on the other
hand on all X terminals i could install a client module of GKrellM
just for collecting information and throwing it to the server.

is that possible?


Thanks.


Perhaps conky suits your needs better than gkrellm. Conky can gather  
all the data you require and can run in headless mode, e.g. over ssh.  
In addition, it doesn't need a desktop environment. You just ssh into  
your server and launch the non-gui version of conky. There is no conky  
server module, you just have to install the conky client on each of  
your servers.


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Re: Server monitoring

2012-07-03 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 5:33 PM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan sir...@gmail.com wrote:
 do you guyz think that *.* @syslog-server is a good option to use.
 are you guys forwarding specific messages or using *.*

 i have listed servers

 3 KVM qemu (vertualization)
 3 Squid servers.
 2 Samba storage servers.
 2 firewall (IPCOP)

 and more to come.. mailserver. VOIP e.t.c


the reason for asking this question is only that i don't want my
logging machine to be get stormed by unwanted messages. and the point
is i am newbie :)

Thanks,


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Re: Server monitoring

2012-07-02 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
as you all vote for loganalyzer but i may also want to send an prompt
alert on my cellphone via sms or VIA email. so do loganalyzer support
this feature?

Thanks,

On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 9:26 PM, Denis Witt
denis.w...@concepts-and-training.de wrote:
 On 29.06.2012 12:46, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote:

 i want your suggestion in installting a centralized syslog server with
 web interface.


 I also use rsyslog and LogAnalyzer.

 For crucial services I also use Nagios and Munin. Nagios also send me
 push-notifications on my Phone if any listed service fails or a machine is
 running out of disk space, etc.

 Bye.



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Re: Server monitoring

2012-07-02 Thread Denis Witt

On 02.07.2012 12:06, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote:

as you all vote for loganalyzer but i may also want to send an prompt
alert on my cellphone via sms or VIA email. so do loganalyzer support
this feature?


No (AFAIK), but Nagios does. E-Mail works out of the box. For SMS you 
will need some kind of service provider or some (linux and sms server 
tools) compatible hardware. If you use an iPhone you can also take a 
look at the prowl-App to receive push notifications.


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Re: Server monitoring

2012-07-02 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
do you guyz think that *.* @syslog-server is a good option to use.
are you guys forwarding specific messages or using *.*

i have listed servers

3 KVM qemu (vertualization)
3 Squid servers.
2 Samba storage servers.
2 firewall (IPCOP)

and more to come.. mailserver. VOIP e.t.c


in this kind of of an environment what kind of strategy do you guyz
think that i can use. *.* or specific or any better approach that you
guyz can suggest.

Thank you,


On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 4:23 PM, Denis Witt
denis.w...@concepts-and-training.de wrote:
 On 02.07.2012 12:06, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote:

 as you all vote for loganalyzer but i may also want to send an prompt
 alert on my cellphone via sms or VIA email. so do loganalyzer support
 this feature?


 No (AFAIK), but Nagios does. E-Mail works out of the box. For SMS you will
 need some kind of service provider or some (linux and sms server tools)
 compatible hardware. If you use an iPhone you can also take a look at the
 prowl-App to receive push notifications.


 Bye.


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Server monitoring

2012-06-29 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
Hello everyone,

i want your suggestion in installting a centralized syslog server with
web interface.
there are many option on the web it is difficult for me to choose the
right one, i am confuse which way to go. so my question to old pros is
, which Syslog server they like to suggest. and secondly i dont want
to dadicate a full machine to Syslog i might want to install other
opensource web base applications with it, such as  hardware inventory
managment etc.

Thanks


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RE: Server monitoring

2012-06-29 Thread Kaplan, Andrew H.
Hello --

I am using LogAnalyzer as my central log server. There is a procedure available 
at the following url:

http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/centralized-logging-web-interface

for the installation. I have the application running on a virtual machine, and 
it has been a productive
add-on for our operations. 

 

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From: Muhammad Yousuf Khan [mailto:sir...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, June 29, 2012 6:47 AM
To: debian
Subject: Server monitoring

Hello everyone,

i want your suggestion in installting a centralized syslog server with
web interface.
there are many option on the web it is difficult for me to choose the
right one, i am confuse which way to go. so my question to old pros is
, which Syslog server they like to suggest. and secondly i dont want
to dadicate a full machine to Syslog i might want to install other
opensource web base applications with it, such as  hardware inventory
managment etc.

Thanks


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Re: Server monitoring

2012-06-29 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 29 Jun 2012 15:46:55 +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote:

 i want your suggestion in installting a centralized syslog server with
 web interface.
 there are many option on the web it is difficult for me to choose the
 right one, i am confuse which way to go. so my question to old pros is ,
 which Syslog server they like to suggest. and secondly i dont want to
 dadicate a full machine to Syslog i might want to install other
 opensource web base applications with it, such as  hardware inventory
 managment etc.

I was also to suggest rsyslog (installed by default) and LogAnalyzer 
or webmin; the latter can be useful (because of its modularity) if you 
want to run another services on the host and also keep a track of them.

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Re: Server monitoring

2012-06-29 Thread Denis Witt

On 29.06.2012 12:46, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote:


i want your suggestion in installting a centralized syslog server with
web interface.


I also use rsyslog and LogAnalyzer.

For crucial services I also use Nagios and Munin. Nagios also send me 
push-notifications on my Phone if any listed service fails or a machine 
is running out of disk space, etc.


Bye.


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Re: server monitoring

2012-05-20 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Hi,

On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 11:01 AM, David Sastre Medina
d.sastre.med...@gmail.com wrote:
 I know nagios is pretty standard, but what most people is not
 telling is most its developers fleed. You should check Icinga instead.
 https://www.icinga.org/2011/11/03/icinga-vs-nagios-a-developers-comparison/
 My personal choice is zabbix.

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Re: server monitoring

2012-05-19 Thread Jeff
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 03:10:55PM +0200, Stanis??aw Findeisen wrote:
 Hi
 
 What tools would you recommend for monitoring the following on a server? :
 
 * kernel + process images in memory

PCP can be configured to collect a large number of system level performance and 
network metrics, and has a GUI (kmchart) for viewing realtime and archive data.

To try out, use apt to install pcp and kmchart, start up kmchart with File-New 
Chart, choose metrics and start graphing.

Jeff


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Re: server monitoring

2012-05-15 Thread Johann Spies
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 03:10:55PM +0200, Stanisław Findeisen wrote:

I support the reference to Nagios.  We have used Munin together with
Nagios when I was system administrator up to 2 years ago. Munin can be
configured to use nagios' notifying system and provides nice graphical
information.

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RE: server monitoring

2012-05-15 Thread Bonno Bloksma
Hi,

 As far as a general monitoring solution is concerned, I would 
 recommend the Nagios Core application. I have been using it for some 
 time, and it does have plugins that can handle most, if not all of the 
 items you listed in your e-mail. I have also deployed another server that 
 utilizes the LogAnalyzer application to monitor the log files on the server.


 As the other posters suggest, Nagios is great for monitoring services etc. 
 and it is very easy to write your own plugins to do exactly what you want.
 There are also various other frontends/forks of Nagios such as Opsview which 
 give it a pretty web UI and make the config very easy.

Of which Munin is my favourite, very easy to install and start using. It comes 
loaded with all you want to know about your Linux system. But

The only thing wrong with all of these products seems to be that it is YOU 
who needs to know WHAT is wrong.
I had a problem with a server and we were unable to find out why the server was 
performing slow. Once someone told me that a specific value needed not just to 
be close to zero (0.01) but very close to zero (0.001) I was able to find 
out where the problem was.
I would have liked a product that would have warned me about that specific 
value instead of just showing a nice graph with lots of lines near zero. :-(

Bonno Bloksma


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Re: server monitoring

2012-05-15 Thread David Sastre Medina
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 03:10:55PM +0200, Stanisław Findeisen wrote:
 What tools would you recommend for monitoring the following on a server? :
 
I'd say you need several different things here:

 * kernel + process images in memory
 * shape of the process tree

-snmpd
-cgroups configuration, if I'm understanding you correctly.

 * binary integrity of files + permissions
 * users, groups

-Integrity and/or intrusion detection: aide, tripwire and alikes, plus
a centralized configuration management system: say puppet, chef,
cfengine, ...

 * network connections

-snmpd
-iptables, psad, fail2ban, etc
(and before someone jumps in and say: those are not monitoring
tools, think twice)

 * user sessions

-snmpd, IIRC

 * log files
 How about reporting? Logging would be good but logging to a local file
 is problematic as that could be compromised on a server hack...

WRT to logging security, syslog-ng can use TCP (more relable than UDP)
and SSL/TLS security. And you can always log to a remote server if you
are concerned about security.

After having these tools installed and configured, you can start using
a monitoring solution to integrate all the info in a centralized web
view. I know nagios is pretty standard, but what most people is not
telling is most its developers fleed. You should check Icinga instead.
https://www.icinga.org/2011/11/03/icinga-vs-nagios-a-developers-comparison/
My personal choice is zabbix. The only thing I miss with zabbix is
snmpv3 SHA/AES support. Other would be munin, cacti.

Most probably all of those monitoring solutions have templates for
OSes and applications (apache, jboss, ... you name it)

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Re: server monitoring

2012-05-15 Thread Brad Alexander
While I agree with many of the respondents that Nagios will do most of
what you want through the plugins (though I'm relatively new to
Nagios), I just wanted to toss a couple of others out there.

* OSSEC (http://ossec.net) is a host-based intrusion detection system
(HIDS). It is primarily email-based, but also has a bolt-on web
interface. From the website:

OSSEC is an Open Source Host-based Intrusion Detection System. It
performs log analysis, file integrity checking, policy monitoring,
rootkit detection, real-time alerting and active response.

It runs on most operating systems, including Linux, MacOS, Solaris,
HP-UX, AIX and Windows.

The other one, Munin (http://munin-monitoring.org/), is a networked
resource monitoring tool that can help analyze resource trends and
what just happened to kill our performance? problems. It is designed
to be very plug and play. A default installation provides a lot of
graphs with almost no work.

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On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 9:10 AM, Stanisław Findeisen
stf.list.debian.u...@eisenbits.com wrote:
 Hi

 What tools would you recommend for monitoring the following on a server? :

 * kernel + process images in memory
 * shape of the process tree
 * binary integrity of files + permissions
 * network connections
 * users, groups
 * user sessions
 * log files
 * ...

 I think this calls for a customizable solution with plugins (or so). Is
 there any such thing in Debian? How reliable is it?

 How about reporting? Logging would be good but logging to a local file
 is problematic as that could be compromised on a server hack...

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server monitoring

2012-05-14 Thread Stanisław Findeisen
Hi

What tools would you recommend for monitoring the following on a server? :

* kernel + process images in memory
* shape of the process tree
* binary integrity of files + permissions
* network connections
* users, groups
* user sessions
* log files
* ...

I think this calls for a customizable solution with plugins (or so). Is
there any such thing in Debian? How reliable is it?

How about reporting? Logging would be good but logging to a local file
is problematic as that could be compromised on a server hack...

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Re: server monitoring

2012-05-14 Thread Denis Witt

On 14.05.2012 15:10, Stanisław Findeisen wrote:


What tools would you recommend for monitoring the following on a server? :



I think this calls for a customizable solution with plugins (or so). Is
there any such thing in Debian? How reliable is it?


I recommend Nagios (http://www.nagios.org/). I'm not sure if any of your 
checks are supported out of the box but you can easily create your own 
plugins. Nagios also supports remote monitoring.



How about reporting? Logging would be good but logging to a local file
is problematic as that could be compromised on a server hack...


Try remote logging using syslog-ng.

Best regards
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RE: server monitoring

2012-05-14 Thread Kaplan, Andrew H.
Hello --

As far as a general monitoring solution is concerned, I would recommend the 
Nagios Core
application. I have been using it for some time, and it does have plugins that 
can handle
most, if not all of the items you listed in your e-mail. I have also deployed 
another 
server that utilizes the LogAnalyzer application to monitor the log files on 
the server. 
 

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Sent: Monday, May 14, 2012 9:11 AM
To: Debian users mailing list
Subject: server monitoring

Hi

What tools would you recommend for monitoring the following on a server? :

* kernel + process images in memory
* shape of the process tree
* binary integrity of files + permissions
* network connections
* users, groups
* user sessions
* log files
* ...

I think this calls for a customizable solution with plugins (or so). Is
there any such thing in Debian? How reliable is it?

How about reporting? Logging would be good but logging to a local file
is problematic as that could be compromised on a server hack...

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Re: server monitoring

2012-05-14 Thread rjc
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 02:32:32PM BST, Denis Witt wrote:
 Try remote logging using syslog-ng.

rsyslog (Debian's default) supports remote logging.

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Re: server monitoring

2012-05-14 Thread shthead

On 14/05/2012 9:34 PM, Kaplan, Andrew H. wrote:

Hello --

As far as a general monitoring solution is concerned, I would recommend the 
Nagios Core
application. I have been using it for some time, and it does have plugins that 
can handle
most, if not all of the items you listed in your e-mail. I have also deployed 
another
server that utilizes the LogAnalyzer application to monitor the log files on 
the server.



As the other posters suggest, Nagios is great for monitoring services 
etc. and it is very easy to write your own plugins to do exactly what 
you want. There are also various other frontends/forks of Nagios such as 
Opsview which give it a pretty web UI and make the config very easy.


For the integrity monitoring I have had great success with ossec. It is 
easy to configure and you can set up active responses (eg. firewalling 
an IP) that can trigger on certain events.



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Re: server monitoring

2012-05-14 Thread Glenn English

On May 14, 2012, at 12:15 PM, shthead wrote:

 As the other posters suggest, Nagios is great for monitoring services

I used to have a significant Nagios system set up, and it did 
indeed do almost anything I needed. But if your needs aren't 
too big, take a look at Monit. It's a whole lot smaller and 
simpler, if it'll fill your needs.

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Re: DCHP Server Monitoring

2009-01-14 Thread Eric Gerlach
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 02:09:28PM +0800, rjubio wrote:
 Hi, 

I am wondering how can I monitor the leases that my dhcp server is  
 giving to its clients. Thanks!
 Maybe there is an existing software that I can use.

If your DHCP server is running Debian, then your DHCP server might write out
the leases to a file.  For example, dnsmasq writes them out to
/var/misc/dhcp_leases (IIRC).  Your best bet would be to check out the man-page
of the particular DHCP server you're using.  Most man-pages have a FILES
section near the bottom which should describe where it is storing the leases.

If your DHCP server is running on your router, you'll have to look at the
router.

Hope that helps!

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Re: DCHP Server Monitoring

2009-01-14 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 02:09:28PM +0800, rjubio wrote:
 Hi, 

I am wondering how can I monitor the leases that my dhcp server is  
 giving to its clients. Thanks!
 Maybe there is an existing software that I can use.

Try Google. There are several CGI scripts around that generate html pages
from the ISC dhcpd lease files.

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DCHP Server Monitoring

2009-01-12 Thread rjubio
Hi, 

   I am wondering how can I monitor the leases that my dhcp server is 
giving to its clients. Thanks!

Maybe there is an existing software that I can use.
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Re: server monitoring program

2002-12-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 01:15:19PM -0500, Kevin Coyner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
 
 Looking for a recommendation of a server monitoring program to use.
 
 I'm responsible for serveral different websites that are run on
 independent ISP/hosts.  A couple of these sites are on Win2K boxes, and
 a couple on Linux.
 
 I'm looking for a program that does simple testing to see if these sites
 are just up and running (i.e. as simple as a periodic ping).  Almost
 needless to say, I'm not on the same network as these machines, so
 firewalls will be present on both my end and the server end.

Nagios is recommended, though its setup is nontrivial.  It's also a bit
jealous of real-estate, and tends to pig your desktop for a full browser
view.  If anyone knows of a consolidated nagios monitor a'la gkrellm 
or a WindowMaker dock app, please share.  Though the browser is a
ubiquitious content access tool, it's not particularly well suited to
system monitoring, IMO, particularly on a system that's not dedicated to
the monitoring task.

For a simple ping continuity test, I've found 'wmhdown' to be useful,
particularly after recompiling it with a default bitmap that's green
rather than grey.  Dropping this on the bottom of my WindowMaker dock,
I've got a small, subtle, but effective indicator of whether or not a
given host is reachable.  I've found that this is a useful and effective
monitoring tool.

You might also look into audio alamrs, pages, and related type
indicators, though the issue in this case is distinguishing actual
alerts from false alarms.

Peace.

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Re: server monitoring program

2002-12-11 Thread Gene
nagios
ntop

good luck.

/gene

Kevin Coyner wrote:

Looking for a recommendation of a server monitoring program to use.

I'm responsible for serveral different websites that are run on
independent ISP/hosts.  A couple of these sites are on Win2K boxes, and
a couple on Linux.

I'm looking for a program that does simple testing to see if these sites
are just up and running (i.e. as simple as a periodic ping).  Almost
needless to say, I'm not on the same network as these machines, so
firewalls will be present on both my end and the server end.

I'll run the program from a Debian box.

Thanks
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server monitoring program

2002-12-10 Thread Kevin Coyner

Looking for a recommendation of a server monitoring program to use.

I'm responsible for serveral different websites that are run on
independent ISP/hosts.  A couple of these sites are on Win2K boxes, and
a couple on Linux.

I'm looking for a program that does simple testing to see if these sites
are just up and running (i.e. as simple as a periodic ping).  Almost
needless to say, I'm not on the same network as these machines, so
firewalls will be present on both my end and the server end.

I'll run the program from a Debian box.

Thanks
Kevin

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RE: server monitoring program

2002-12-10 Thread Mikael Jirari
Title: RE: server monitoring program






I know bb4 do that quite well and it's portable on unix and windows.
I think mrtg do something like that as well (disk use, load of the processor)



-Original Message-
From: Kevin Coyner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: 10 December 2002 18:15
To: Debian User
Subject: server monitoring program



Looking for a recommendation of a server monitoring program to use.


I'm responsible for serveral different websites that are run on
independent ISP/hosts. A couple of these sites are on Win2K boxes, and
a couple on Linux.


I'm looking for a program that does simple testing to see if these sites
are just up and running (i.e. as simple as a periodic ping). Almost
needless to say, I'm not on the same network as these machines, so
firewalls will be present on both my end and the server end.


I'll run the program from a Debian box.


Thanks
Kevin


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Re: server monitoring program

2002-12-10 Thread nate
Kevin Coyner said:

 Looking for a recommendation of a server monitoring program to use.

for plain old fashioned monitoring I reccomend SNIPS

http://www.netplex-tech.com/software/snips/

sample:

http://snips.aphroland.org/

nate




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RE: server monitoring program

2002-12-10 Thread Doug MacFarlane
On 10 Dec 2002, 18:27:46, Mikael Jirari wrote:
 
 I know bb4 do that quite well and it's portable on unix and windows.
 I think mrtg do something like that as well (disk use, load of the
 processor)

Sitescope from Freshwater Software downloads a page, and then downloads it
again as often as you tell it do, runs a diff, and emails/pages if:

it can't download it
it's different

You could do this yourself with a script pretty easily these days, since
you can email pagers via script trivially.

madmac


 
 
 -Original Message-
 From: Kevin Coyner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
 Sent: 10 December 2002 18:15
 To: Debian User
 Subject: server monitoring program
 
 
 Looking for a recommendation of a server monitoring program to use.
 
 I'm responsible for serveral different websites that are run on
 independent ISP/hosts.  A couple of these sites are on Win2K boxes, and
 a couple on Linux.
 
 I'm looking for a program that does simple testing to see if these sites
 are just up and running (i.e. as simple as a periodic ping).  Almost
 needless to say, I'm not on the same network as these machines, so
 firewalls will be present on both my end and the server end.
 
 I'll run the program from a Debian box.
 
 Thanks
 Kevin
 


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Re: server monitoring program

2002-12-10 Thread Gene
check out - http://www.nagios.org, nagios could monitor servers 
services as well as other core infrastructures...

/gene

Mikael Jirari wrote:

I know bb4 do that quite well and it's portable on unix and windows.
I think mrtg do something like that as well (disk use, load of the 
processor)


-Original Message-
From: Kevin Coyner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 10 December 2002 18:15
To: Debian User
Subject: server monitoring program


Looking for a recommendation of a server monitoring program to use.

I'm responsible for serveral different websites that are run on
independent ISP/hosts.  A couple of these sites are on Win2K boxes, and
a couple on Linux.

I'm looking for a program that does simple testing to see if these sites
are just up and running (i.e. as simple as a periodic ping).  Almost
needless to say, I'm not on the same network as these machines, so
firewalls will be present on both my end and the server end.

I'll run the program from a Debian box.

Thanks
Kevin

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Re: server monitoring program

2002-12-10 Thread Nico Meijer
Hi Kevin,

 I'm looking for a program that does simple testing to see if these sites
 are just up and running (i.e. as simple as a periodic ping).  Almost
 needless to say, I'm not on the same network as these machines, so
 firewalls will be present on both my end and the server end.

Haven't tried it on Debian yet, but no reason it shouldn't work: Sysmon - 
http://www.sysmon.org/.

I like the fact that it takes into account you have dependencies in a network; ie. for 
your specific host to be reachable, your sysmon box's gateway has to be up aswell as 
the monitored host's gateway.

Plus, it's as easy as it comes installing and setting up.

HTH... Nico


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Re: server monitoring program

2002-12-10 Thread Kevin Coyner

On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 10:42:16AM -0800, nate wrote..

 Kevin Coyner said:
 
  Looking for a recommendation of a server monitoring program to use.
 
 for plain old fashioned monitoring I reccomend SNIPS
 
 http://www.netplex-tech.com/software/snips/
 
 sample:
 
 http://snips.aphroland.org/
 
 nate

This looks quite good, but do I need to have a Snips process of some
type running on the Windows webservers that I need to monitor?  

Or can I just run Snips as a standalone on my Debian box, having it
ping/etc the Windows and Linux servers that I need to check that are not
within my network?

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Re: server monitoring program

2002-12-10 Thread nate
Kevin Coyner said:

 This looks quite good, but do I need to have a Snips process of some type
 running on the Windows webservers that I need to monitor?

you wanted network monitoring. So, that means no processes on the
servers, only the monitoring system. The example monitors a ton of
different things(including my experimental samba-tng PDC) and everything
is monitored from 1 machine. You can spread the load out, but its
not needed.

 Or can I just run Snips as a standalone on my Debian box, having it
 ping/etc the Windows and Linux servers that I need to check that are not
 within my network?

you can run it on a standalone box(what i do). It works well, I've
been using SNIPS since september, and NOCOL(earlier version of
SNIPS for about 3 years now). I suppose the only downside to it
is the mailing list is not active, but if you have an issue I can
try to help with it. It's pretty easy to use.


nate




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