crontab program

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Re: monitoring toolkit for linux cluster by pzbagel (Chaplain) on Sep 16, 2003 at 20:24 UTC
Try Nagios. Lo and there was rejoicing and beating of drums and dancing as much painful wheel-revinvention had been averted!	[reply]
Re: Re: monitoring toolkit for linux cluster by Fletch (Bishop) on Sep 17, 2003 at 01:22 UTC
Seconded. I used it at the previous job and we were most satisfied with it (although the web front end's CGIs being not easily modified compiled C rather than perl could be considered a strike against :).	[reply]
Re: Re: monitoring toolkit for linux cluster by vek (Prior) on Sep 17, 2003 at 02:59 UTC
Thirded, sort of. This is one of those I know a bloke who knows a bloke whose sister used.. kind of endorsements :-) A sysadmin I used to know used `netsaint` back in the day and used to rave about it constantly. `netsaint` then morphed into `Nagios` (as I recall) and I've heard that it's only got better since it's `netsaint` days. -- vek --	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: monitoring toolkit for linux cluster (with 'mon') by markjugg (Curate) on Sep 17, 2003 at 02:30 UTC
We've been using mon to monitor a rack full of servers for a few years at my web hosting company, and I'm happy with it. We were able to tune it so it pages us for about every important kind of event we care about, without getting paged more than we wanted to. 'Mon' is written in Perl. I wasn't aware of Nagios until now. Mark	[reply]