[WhatsUp Forum] Programming needed

[Jerry Pena]

My situation: I have a primary OS X server running web, ftp and email. There are multiple IP’s but just the standard ports are being used. I will be setting up a 2nd OS X server which will use replication, becoming a perfect backup image of the first primary OS X server. I have public IP’s for all the services hosted and using our Cisco router NAT those addresses to internal IP’s on the primary server. I will be running WhatsUp Gold (WUG) on a PC server on our network.   What I am trying to accomplish: I want to use WUG to monitor the services from the PC and to trigger an action (script (preferably PHP) or program) that will telnet into the primary OS X server and try to restart the bad service that triggered this action (i.e. “apachectl start” or “proftpd”). Then it should wait about 30 seconds and check the service again. If the service is still down then it should telnet into our Cisco router and type the commands necessary to map the broken service to the backup OS X servers appropriate IP. If WUG cant get to the primary OS X server or if the action is unable to telnet into the server then it should telnet into the Cisco router and map all services to the backup OS X servers IP’s.   I have all the commands (OS X and Cisco) in question along with a sequence/flowchart of how the process should flow. I just don’t know or want to write the scripts/program to do this. I can see this easily becoming a turn key solution for anyone, because the only alternative I have found so far is a $10000 (retail) hardware solution using Layer3 switching.   Please call or email ASAP, as this is a project I would love to get off my plate before the year is out.     Jerry Pe�a Director of Operations A Proud Member of the Warren Group http://www.warrenweb.com 310 217-8423 310 217-9890 Fax