[thelist] Website monitoring software assistance?

[Jonathan]

Awesome.

Thanks for all the replies from everyone.  I think I'm being unclear on what
we're having issues with.  I've done my best to lay it down more clearly in
this email (one reply to the last three posts on the subject).

We do use Nagios actually.  It's the best monitoring package out there, and
even supports distributed monitoring from multiple locations.  

I've just subscribed to the Nagios mailing list, and I'll ask the same
question there (and if this is possible, report back here so it's in the
archives).

Richard, the webmin idea is interesting as well, but I've tried the module
you're talking about and it's really geared to monitor the server that
webmin is running on.

An in terms of MRTG, we use MRTG for some of our monitoring.  Now, we have a
system based on RRDtool and MRTG (RRDtool is the "backend") that we wrote
(and hacked together from various people's scripts).  Info on that is here:
http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/rrdtool/

I have to say, performance wise, RRDtool is hands down awesome.

However, IMHO Nagios and these other tools are primarily aimed at providing
high level monitoring of server farms, which is actually what we use Nagios
for right now.  

Sure, you can set it up to handle distributed monitoring, but it's not
really geared to someone who wants to offer service to 10,000 people, which
is what's stumping me.  I'm beginning to think we'll have to build it, which
is fine, but I was hoping to have a foundation from an open source project. 

I'll let the list know if Nagios can be adapted to work in this fashion.
Let me know if anyone else has other suggestions.  I sincerely appreciate
the assistance.

Best,

Jonathan

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org 
> [mailto:thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org] On Behalf Of patrick
> Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2004 7:39 AM
> To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
> Subject: Re: [thelist] Website monitoring software assistance?
> 
> Like this?
> http://www.nagios.org/
> 
> patrick sanders
> http://www.stoutstreet.com
> web sites that fit
> 
> 
> 
> Jonathan wrote:
> 
> >Howdy List!
> >
> >We're looking to set up a free website uptime monitoring service for 
> >our customers, but I'm not really finding too much out there 
> to help us 
> >out.  Of course I've looked at the uptime software in the 
> marketplace, 
> >but it's really designed for an IT team looking to monitor groups of 
> >services or groups of services.
> >
> >We want to set up a service to do website monitoring.  Things like:
> >
> >http
> >httpd
> >pop3
> >smtp
> >ftp
> >imap
> >telnet
> >dnsa
> >dnsns
> >match
> >Ping
> >
> >And we're hoping to do it on an open source budget.  Right?  Well, I 
> >know it's nuts but there must be something out there that's designed 
> >more as a service than for an engineering department.  We're 
> hoping to 
> >set up a free version of what these companies do:
> >
> >http://www.watchmouse.com/en/index.php
> >http://www.nmsalert.com/
> >http://netwhistle.com/overview/default.aspx
> >
> >We've basically got a very large network of server computers 
> running at 
> >99% unused capacity (distributed DNS mostly), and figure it 
> would be a 
> >good way to promote our business while giving back to the Net.
> >
> >Is there anything out there?  We speak Java, PERL, and PHP, Unix 
> >(Linux,
> >FreeBSD) as well as several page languages, but definitely 
> no Windows 
> >and very little Cold Fusion.
> >
> >Thanks in advance!
> >
> >Jonathan
> >
> >
> >  
> >
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