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10-18-2004, 02:17 AM #1Junior Guru Wannabe
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How to Monitor Network Uptime
I just bought a server at a new hosting provider, and I want to make sure the network stays up. What is the best way to monitor my network? I just tried out icpld and it already reported some downtime, but I have no way of telling how reliable icpld is.
Any solutions to this?
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10-18-2004, 02:28 AM #2Web Hosting Master
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One of the ways is to monitor your server's uptime using a third party vendor, e.g. www.alertra.com . If your server is reachable, the network is up
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10-18-2004, 03:13 AM #3Junior Guru
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Use some software called nagios - if you search for that on here you'll find loads of links. It's excellent! ( I found it on this forum .. )
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10-18-2004, 03:36 AM #4Web Hosting Master
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That would be www.nagios.org
If you have a bunch of servers in your server farm, use a minimum of two external alert/monitoring services, with testing period of say 5 minutes (i.e. services are tested every 5 minutes), for more ciritical systems you can go to 2 minutes. Some providers (including us), have leased servers worldwide and intalled softwares on them to monitor our network. A good software that I know of is GFi Server Monitor.
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10-18-2004, 11:55 AM #5Junior Guru Wannabe
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There are many open source / free applications to monitor your server's health.
Nagios - www.nagios.com
Big Brother - www.bb4.org
OpenNMS - www.opennms.org
To name a few.eWebtricity
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10-18-2004, 02:51 PM #6Web Hosting Evangelist
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nagios is great, we love it
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10-18-2004, 08:34 PM #7Junior Guru
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hyperspin.com is also nice.. ( 1,95 USD per month )