IT people: What monitoring software u use?

[slycat]

For example u have like a server hosting websites and u install this to to monitor the sites,
in case it hangs it will run a script to restart a service, kill a service, email you...etc

I've used ipmonitor, westwind web monitor..etc.
Just wondering if anyone knows of other killerapps in this category.

 

[RossMAN]

These may not qualify as killer apps but they are free server monitoring services:

http://www.easymonitor.com/

http://www.siteuptime.com/

http://www.hyperspin.com/

 

[arcas]

Nagios (formerly named 'NetSaint').

 

[goldboyd]

Currently we use Iglass, by Istructure to monitor us. They're great, but most definately not cheap. Bigbrother is also used by other divisions in my company.

 

[Soybomb]

Originally posted by: arcas
Nagios (formerly named 'NetSaint').

I use nagios and love it. 🙂 Even has a wap accessable page.

If you're only going one host its probably overkill though. Also by default it won't restart services, only notify you of their status, although you could script something I'm sure. Since you're talking about multiple hosts though I wouldn't say thats really the monitors job. If you want that and use *nix read up on daemontools and set it up so it will restart the service. Then nagios will notify you if that fails for some reason.

(might ask to move this to networking forum, you'd probably get more responses)

 

[T2T III]

We used to use Netcool. Netcool would monitor URLs for availability. You could define the interval for Netcool to retry the link before sending you a page. I don't think Netcool has the built-in ability to do restarts, though. However, the application was administered by our 3rd party vendor, so we had little involvement with the actual configuration of the application itself.

I'd look at what RossMAN has provided. Since they're free, try 'em. If they stink, you can remove them and not get stuck buying a bad product.

 

[yoda291]

I wrote a very simple one myself. It checks for running services like web email etc on my server and executes a series of commands until i get an alert or the service returns. It's hooked into crond and checks periodically.

 

[ViRGE]

Intermapper.

 

[arcas]

Originally posted by: Soybomb

Originally posted by: arcas
Nagios (formerly named 'NetSaint').

I use nagios and love it. 🙂 Even has a wap accessable page.

If you're only going one host its probably overkill though. Also by default it won't restart services, only notify you of their status, although you could script something I'm sure. Since you're talking about multiple hosts though I wouldn't say thats really the monitors job. If you want that and use *nix read up on daemontools and set it up so it will restart the service. Then nagios will notify you if that fails for some reason.

(might ask to move this to networking forum, you'd probably get more responses)

Ugh. daemontools. DJBware 😉

Nagios/Netsaint rocks. We have it monitoring services and machine resources (available swap, etc) and have arranged for it to cc alerts to an IRC channel that we monitor so that everybody can watch things in real-time. Pretty slick.

 

[Soybomb]

Originally posted by: arcas

Originally posted by: Soybomb

Originally posted by: arcas
Nagios (formerly named 'NetSaint').

I use nagios and love it. 🙂 Even has a wap accessable page.

If you're only going one host its probably overkill though. Also by default it won't restart services, only notify you of their status, although you could script something I'm sure. Since you're talking about multiple hosts though I wouldn't say thats really the monitors job. If you want that and use *nix read up on daemontools and set it up so it will restart the service. Then nagios will notify you if that fails for some reason.

(might ask to move this to networking forum, you'd probably get more responses)

Ugh. daemontools. DJBware 😉

Nagios/Netsaint rocks. We have it monitoring services and machine resources (available swap, etc) and have arranged for it to cc alerts to an IRC channel that we monitor so that everybody can watch things in real-time. Pretty slick.

Lol actually I don't use daemontools myself anymore (not a huge djb fan myself) but it is an option. Currently nagios emails me and anyone else on the contact list for that group or servers and can send sms messages to my cell phone if I want. I haven't really had a problem with services just stopping and needing to be restarted so if it happens I don't mind getting notified since its probably an underlying problem that needs to be looked into. If its not scheduled down time I want to know 🙂

Ohhh also for a brief while I used a piece of software called npulse that you might want to look into slycat. Its a basic package but functional.

If you're using windows and want something basic I know co-workers that use whats up gold and servers alive.


live nagios demo
user: guest
pass: guest

 

[slag]

Go learn PERL and never again pay for such a rudimentary tool that can be cranked out in perl in a matter of minutes.