Monitoring your HDD using SMART and Nagios Monitoring of your computer systems is a good idea. There are many tools that let you verify that specified services are running, and available for clients. I use Nagios. You can check that Apache is still running, Postfix is still accepting mail, and various other things. If you […]
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NetSaint – a network monitor NetSaint is a network monitor. You can use it to keep close tabs on your routers, printers, computers, and services. NetSaint can watch/monitor various services (SMTP, POP3, HTTP) to make sure they keep running. It can ping boxes to make sure they are still up. If a problem occurs, NetSaint
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Big Brother is watching you (and your network) As mentioned in the documentation, Big Brother is a a web-based systems and network monitoring and notification system. For more information, see http://MacLawran.ca/bb-dnld/features.html. Note: Big Brother requires a web server. So install it on a box which already has apache installed. See the Apache topics for more
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