Lightweight network monitoring program

[gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On 02/28/2011 10:23 AM, Ian Stokes-Rees wrote:
>
> On 2/28/11 10:18 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
>> One of my systems at work tends to drop its network connection. What I=

>> need is a network monitoring tool. Certainly nagios will do the job, b=
ut
>> I'm looking for something more light weight that will simply check a
>> list of hosts periodically. I would like to run the monitoring softwar=
e
>> from either my Windows laptop of one of the network servers.
> In my (admittedly very limited) experience, you think you just want
> something simple and lightweight and then quickly discover you actually=

> need more and more features.  Nagios was designed for exactly this sort=

> of thing.  While it isn't a "15 minute" solution, the ~half a day you'd=

> spend getting a basic Nagios setup in place is probably worth it.
>
You're probably right. The issue with the single system is that the NIC
seems to die, but none of the logs indicate the failure except that if
cannot connect with the NFS server. I've activated the second NIC on the
MB, but I'm pretty sure that it will die too. In any case, I've just
been putting off the nagios installation, but it is time to bite the bull=
et.

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Jerry Feldman <gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org>
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