[Opensource] monitoring your web servers

[Roland Gesthuizen]

Thanks Kevork, I was curious about a service that is outside the school to
track when the website is up or down. It is more to see when your outside
link falls over than the server itself and perhaps mroe of use when you are
away from school.

Arran and Daniel have gotten me interested in OpenNMS, Cacti and Nagios.
Must show them off to you one day. Each has their different advantages and
we are running them as evaluation VM's although I think I will be greedy and
ask to keep and use the lot. :-)

Say, do you have any thoughts or ideas about SMS gateways?

Regards Roland

2009/11/2 Kevork Krozian <kevork at edulists.com.au>

>  Hi Roland,
>
>  We used Big Brother for many years with a set of "traffic lights" showing
> all services on multiple servers down do disc space usage, DNS, Mail, DHCP
> etc with the option to SMS one or more numbers when a trigger point was
> breached.
>
>  Just imagine techs and ICT coordinators .
>
> This can prevent the regular "is the internet down ?", is "email down?" ,
> "is the system down?"  as techs/ICT coordinators carrying books, going to
> class , sitting at lunch, going to the toilet are confronted with several
> times per day/week !!
>
> Enjoy ....
>
>
> Kevork Krozian
> kevork at edulists.com.au
> www.edulists.com.au
> Tel: 0419 356 034
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>  *From:* Roland Gesthuizen <rgesthuizen at gmail.com>
> *To:* Open Source Software Mailing List <opensource at edulists.com.au> ; Technical
> Discussion in Schools Mailing List <tech at edulists.com.au>
> *Sent:* Monday, November 02, 2009 2:11 AM
> *Subject:* [Opensource] monitoring your web servers
>
> Here is an interesting and free web service that is probably worth
> investigating for tracking and logging alerts when school web servers go
> down. Do any others use this or use something similar?
>
> http://www.siteuptime.com/
>>
>> SiteUptime is a website monitoring service that checks your website at
>> regular intervals and notifies you via email or SMS if it becomes
>> unavailable. We offer a Free 30 day trial of our service. Multiple
>> monitoring servers around the world run protocol based tests on your website
>> at specific intervals. If more than one location detects a connection
>> failure, an email or SMS alert is sent to you.
>>
>
> --
> Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College
> http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au
>
> "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can
> change the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has." --Margaret
> Mead
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Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College
http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change
the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has." --Margaret Mead
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