Uptime Programs

[The Borg]

Hi there,

I like knowing the running time of my machines. I used an idea from a Novel server box many years ago to write a 'Running Time' program. Not the best, but it was fun. I have 15 machines at the moment and most are in a crack rack for DC stuff. I found a web site a little while ago (http://en.uptime-project.net/) that does the same and more. However, this site is going down at the end of the month. I have been thinking of re-writing my running time program and expanding it to send data to a central machine for display (the crack rack machines don't have monitors, etc).

I have tried serching for Uptime monitors but with no luck. Any ideas as to where I could find soetrhing like this?

Thanks in advance

 

[TekniDude]

You could try MRTG. http://oss.oetiker.ch/mrtg/
It's mainly used for monitoring up/down traffic passed through routers but I've seen people add on uptime (and also processor load).
As long as you are running the SNMP service and the servers can ping each other it should work.

I unfortunately could never get the uptime part of it working on my server (but it's w2k3) so good luck.


...or just write a small CRON script to report the time to your web server every X minutes.