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Old 16th December 2005   #1 (permalink)
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server monitor with email alerts?

is there such a program or script , which monitors each game server you are running on your boxes and if any of them go down it emails say down@yourcompany.com for instance , im using linux servers so it possibly pings each server every 5 mins or 15 or whatever, anybody know of any program/tool/script what does the job?

apart from a control panel of course.

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Yeah we know of a tool that will do that job
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oh really if its available let me know on msn please i got a new msn btw lol

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http://www.network-eagle.com for monitoring and email alerts which I have also integrated with http://autopage.info/ for SMS alerting.

Or you could just get a panel
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Thumbs up

thanks for that, the panel i want "tcadmin" doesnt support linux until Feb they tell me so im looking for somthing to keep me until then
Once again thankyou Martin !

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Good lord, if you're a linux head, at least consider one of the open source options like Nagios or JFFNMS before you splurge cash on something like NE unnecessarily.
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Thanks for that phil
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Phil when i bought NE it certainly was nowhere near the £300 it is now, i was quite shocked looking at the new pricing.
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I hadn't even looked at the pricing, but things like that seem to have a habit of being overpriced for what they are.

I certainly couldn't see anything that would make me buy it over using something like Nagios (which I can write plugins for and monitor practically anything I like - such as my shoutcast server monitor plugin). People bitch about it being awkward to configure but I don't see what all the fuss is about
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Me neither, we use Nagios and are more than happy with it.

It's certainly very flexible, and we only maintain one main config file which makes it fairly easy to manage too.

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yes , weve decided to use nagios, once again this forums comes up trumps ,
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We use Alertra, they are very good. I would reccomend them
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Alertra are way too expensive (seriously) and from what I've seen generate their fair share of false positives despite their fancy multi-location testing.

Put Nagios (or a nagios sensor) on an off-net box and plug something like Kewlio's SMS service (relatively easy to do by modifying the 'pager' notify method in nagios) in if you want SMS alerts from monitoring.
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Yup, we use aql.com for our SMS alerts with Nagios.

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