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admin tip - use "Big Brother" for system monitoring
this might be old news for some of you, but i thought it might interest
those who haven't yet heard of 'big brother'.
'big brother' (http://www.bb4.com) is a system that provides system and
network monitoring for unix systems (and they have clients for NT and
MacOS too, but clients here are more like agents. no idea why they call
them 'clients'). you install it on your different systems, and it polls
your system every few minutes to check for free disk space, uptime,
availability of important processes, etc. you also denote a machine to
check network services (smtp, imap, pop3, telnet, ssh, http and few
others).
if some resource becomes scarce (you define what 'scarce' is per resource)
the system will send you notification (they support email, SMS, paging,
etc). you also can see a concise report on a web page, which allows you to
see the current overall status, and view logs of status as it's been in
the last X days.
'big brother' is free as long as you use it internally for your own
network. i heard of it long ago, but only installed it today, and it
appears to be working properly and doing its job nicely.
enjoy,
guy
"For world domination - press 1,
or dial 0, and please hold, for the creator." -- nob o. dy
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