[NTLUG:Discuss] Notification of downed server?

[Darin W. Smith]

If you have a fairly robust network...i.e., built using UPSes on critical 
machines and such, so that it is unlikely all machines would be down at 
once, I would use something like Big Brother or mon.

I think Big Brother is at bb4.com these days.  I haven't used it since the 
early, early days.  It had a lot of functionality, though, including the 
ability to send alphanumeric pages to your pager using a modem.

I saw it mentioned as "spyware" so I don't know if they added something 
like keystroke monitoring or something...but that would be weird, because 
all it was was something that would check that certain services were up on 
a list of machines and generate a nice webpage for you, optionally emailing 
or paging you if anything got into the red.

D!

On Tue, 27 May 2003 13:33:13 -0500, Richard Humphrey <richard at multicam.com> 
wrote:

> I was curious as to what, if anything others do about being notified if
> the servers go down due to power outages etc. Living in Texas during
> spring we have many a thunderstorm and blackouts for short periods of
> time. What type of technologies are available to notify the admin when a
> server goes down? All of our servers are on battery backups so is there
> a method, maybe emailing me that the server is on battery power and will
> be going down?
>
>
> Richard Humphrey
> System Administrator
> Multicam L.P.
> (972)929-4070
> richard at multicam.com
>
>
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