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From: rstone@superior.carleton.ca (Ron Stone)
Subject: Remote server monitoring software
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Date: Wed, 23 Feb 1994 12:36:00 GMT
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[ Article crossposted from comp.sys.sun.admin ]
[ Author was Ron Stone ]
[ Posted on Wed, 23 Feb 1994 12:23:24 GMT ]
The company I work for is planning to expand its LAN management
software to include remote monitoring of detailed UNIX server
statistics.
Our present product allows the LAN administrator to monitor over
thirty five variables on the health and performance of Novell servers,
setting greater-than/less-than thresholds on any combination of these,
which will trigger a "down" status if exceeded. The administrator can
choose to be notified of such events by customized messages sent by
email, modem, alpha-numeric pager, and on screen alert.
We think a UNIX server version should monitor things like load
averages & memory utilization, total number of processes, failed
forks, zombies, total & failed disk I/O, cache hit rates, free disk
space, inode usage, etc.
If you have any ideas regarding what would be important to the UNIX
administrator, please write back to me. We appreciate all input.
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Ron Stone rstone@ccs.carleton.ca
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Ron Stone rstone@ccs.carleton.ca
or ac258@freenet.carleton.ca