> Envoyé : jeudi 5 juin 2008 05:21 De la part de Ric Moore > > On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 22:40 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > > > I think this is a misunderstanding of what I am trying to do. > > I could easily send my logwatch report to the machine I want (alfred) > > by posting it to gayleard@xxxxxxxxxx , my email address. > > I collect my mail by fetchmail from my ISP every 5 minutes. > > (I also collect it from 2 other servers, including gmail.com , > > as well as a UUCP feed.) > > > > But I think it must be possible to process and deliver it locally, > > and am trying to find out if this belief is justified. > > My memory done failed me now, but during my old Caldera days, there was > an app that you installed on your "master" machine, with a little script > that was installed to all of your satellite machines that you wanted to > monitor. Basically, each of the machines that you wanted to monitor > would send log files to the master host periodically (as often as you > desired by setting some simple parameters) and when one of them went > mission-critical the app, as it scanned the log files, would note things > like hard-drive failures, net connectivity problems, anything you set it > to monitor for, and you had a screen that showed all of the machines in > green, if OK, or red, if not. Clicking on the square of the flashing red > machine would reveal the actual log and the problems. Nifty as all > heck. > > The Dept of Agriculture in Texas used it to monitor hundreds of machines > on their intranet. It was free, very basic, and it worked like a charm. > For the life of me, I cannot remember the name of it, for the life of > me. But, it basically did what I think you are trying to do. Ergo, what > I think you want to do, is doable! I had sendmail up and running but I > don't think it relied on DNS as all of the addresses were static. Ric > Hi, Do you want to mean Nagios or Cacti ? Maybe NetSaint in the previous century with OpenLinux Server ;-) Patrick -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
