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Need quick and dirty free server monitoring tool

sygyzy

sygyzy

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Can anyone suggest a free piece of software that can monitor a server (by just pinging it)? I need to run it on my windows box. A firefox extension would be cool but so far I can't find one.
 
not sure if you can run it on a windows box (maybe via cygwin) but nagios is one of the best longer term tools
 
Originally posted by: nweaver
not sure if you can run it on a windows box (maybe via cygwin) but nagios is one of the best longer term tools
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Nagios is fantastic and provides a wealth of information about running services, maybe a little over kill for determining if a site responds to ping heh. I was looking to see if there was a quick and dirty way to use php and rss to provide this functionality, but didn't come across anything ready-made.
 
Yeah, I don't need something overkill. I need something that can run on a Windows box. It's to monitor a 2003 Server box that seems to like to shutdown. We know the problem but there is no fix currently. I need to be notified when it goes down. The server itself couldn't email me obviously.
 
I'm not familar with free software for windows, but you could probably just use perl or vbscript. Perl would be easy, set it up to run and email you if the box is unpingable x times in a row.
 
I use my ISA 2004 Servers to monitor other servers, both locally and across the Internet. It'll ping them, get web pages, etc. and issue alerts if there's a problem.

But it's not free. 🙁
 
Originally posted by: sygyzy
Yeah, I don't need something overkill. I need something that can run on a Windows box. It's to monitor a 2003 Server box that seems to like to shutdown. We know the problem but there is no fix currently. I need to be notified when it goes down. The server itself couldn't email me obviously.
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Do you have an email account on that server? I keep a pop3 client going, and when I get send-recv errors I know something is up.
 
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