I'm thinking about buying an old notebook which I want to connect to my DSL to permanantly monitor my server with SSH/top. Is this usefull? is anybody esle doing such 24/7 monitoring from their office or home?

The only issue is your DSL connection may not be up 100%, and you will have trouble monitoring your server accurately.

Peter

Right, but its very rare that your dsl go down the same day/hour than your server

Why use a sep. notebook? Just leave your machine on. top takes up mem and processor, you'd be better off getting a monitoring service.

Originally posted by dominet
Right, but its very rare that your dsl go down the same day/hour than your server
That depends on the DSL provider. Like I said, the keyword here is "accurately".

Peter

Originally posted by Floid
I'm thinking about buying an old notebook which I want to connect to my DSL to permanantly monitor my server with SSH/top. Is this usefull? is anybody esle doing such 24/7 monitoring from their office or home?

Theres plenty of tools to do this more accurately, some that come to mind are whats up, nagios, netsaint, etc.

While you're at it, get one for WHT, it seems to be down a lot recently (only for short little spurts, but almost daily when im on, come back 5 minutes later and its fine) :D.