On Sun, 2003-10-26 at 12:35, Jason Dixon wrote: > On Sun, 2003-10-26 at 14:59, Patrick Nelson wrote: > > I need a website monitoring tool. Anyone know of anything good to run > > off a RH7.3 system? > > You haven't given us very much information. What exactly about the > website are you trying to monitor? What kind of agents do you prefer? > What kind of notifications do you prefer? Do you need something > extensible, that you can write your own modules/agents for? In what > language? > > For the money (free), you can't beat Nagios. It far outperforms > SiteScope many other commercial monitoring packages. It can take a bit > of time to configure, but it is NOT difficult. It's written in Perl, so > if you're a perl hacker, you'll feel right at home. And even if you're > not, the basic agents should suffice. > > Of course, if you just want something to monitor basic signs of life, it > would be trivial to write something in shell/perl/expect that would a) > ping the site or b) connect to 80 and perform a GET and c) evaluate the > output for accuracy. Gosh your right, that was vague! We have a vendor with an ASP app and we have a consultant who tests it for performance. When the site goes down it sometimes takes us a couple days (believe it or not) to get the info that the site was down. This is something that we track (down-time). Right now we get reports from the vendor. Great, but I want to have a monitor setup of my own. Nagios sounds like great solution, however we do not have access to the host (not sure if this even matters). So, I would like to monitor whether the site is up or not now, while I explore if Nagios is a better solution. There are businesses that do this level service but I want the control which Nagios seems to give. Hope that is better info. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
