Re: [LUG] Linux network monitoring tools

[Kelly Jones <kellyjones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

My clients have mixed systems but that's not really relevant as monitoring software doesn't care which webserver your are running, it merely keeps checking that port 80 responded and the same for mail servers, ftp etc etc.






On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 13:59, Grant Sewell wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 11:10:34 +0100
> Kelly Jones <kellyjones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > I look after the I.T needs of several small businesses in the area and i
> > need to monitor their routers, web servers etc and alert me via email or
> > text message if they go down.  Is there a suitable free solution for
> > Linux? 
> > 
> > I have looked at Big Brother and some others but these appear to be a
> > bit much for my needs, are there any other light weight alternatives?
> > 
>
> Surely this would depend on the systems being monitored?  I am presuming that the web-servers (and etc) are Linux machines, but what routers are being used?