Im wondering in everyones point of view, what is needed utilities to help improve your hosting businesses.

E.g: Better service monitoring tools, simplistic security tools etc..

Iv just been getting bored and im debating a few program ideas... Toss any ideas my way for inovative programs or ingeniouse ideas :P

Security would be #1 in my mind as you can allways deal with a fork or porn. Those are all side effects.

very true :)

A few people emailed me asking for a service integrity monitor of somkind but one that is more stand alone than the chksrv provided by deamon utils.

As such i took the time to make a utility called SIM (service integrity monitor :). Essentialy its main purpose to to monitor the online status of services and restart the services when they are detected offline - as well as send email alerts.

SIM so far iv tryed to make customizable and modular - i would like input from anyone willing to give it a try:
http://magnum.r-fx.net/downloads/sim-0.8.tar

Their is a README file enclosed to help with the installation (witch is simple already). SIM is made in pure SH so it should be easily ported amoungst posix operating systems.

thanks in advance to all those who (i hope) will give it a try and post feedback.

Seem to be stuck installing, something wrong with my box? or I did something wrong?

Try the below, its a updated version with fixes for FreeBSD, Slackware and Mandrake.

http://magnum.r-fx.net/downloads/sim-0.9.tar

What distro are you using ?

Using a modified Mandrake 8.1, it is probibly not quite standard as far as some aspects as I had to change compiler for some software due to backwards compatibility with libraries needed, then changed compiler back, this could be something to do with my problem, or lack of knowledge on the subject.

I would however suggest that you done pay too much attention to my contribution, as I cannot be sure of its integrity, box is only a dev box, probibly work fine with RedHat.:rolleyes:

tried other, same result.

Hi,


Would you like to explain "Security Implementation and Monitoring"

How do you understand it?

Regards

Originally posted by erapid
Hi,


Would you like to explain "Security Implementation and Monitoring"

How do you understand it?

Regards

putting aside that I just downloaded a script from a public form, tried to compile as root! NOOOooo! Perfect example of a common socialy engineered security breach, potentaily fatal to system.

please do carry on...

:D

haha thats not a very good habbit :P

'Security Implementation and Monitoring'
- To implament security standards and monitor them , there-in.

(e.g: Automated setup of tripwire, snort, portsentry and simple log parser to email events from snort/portsentry - and run tripwire once daily).