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(More) Intelligent Network Monitors?

Posted by Cliff on from the they're-thinking dept.

Genady asks: "Maybe I'm getting old. I've been looking around lately at all the little scripts I've created to watch log files, drive space, web pages, general SysAdmin stuff really. It's really a mis-mash of stuff I've written and aquired over the years. I've used the higher end enterprise management frameworks, as well as lower end apps like NetSaint. My problem with these has always been lack of intelligence. Does anyone know of a project to do monitoring/alerting coupled with some artificial intelligence that can learn that I don't care about particular servers after a certain time of day?"

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  1. Start sharing _YOUR_ scripts! by Gruturo · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I also keep writing tons of little shell scripts, I also recently built a little, ugly-but-reliable monitoring system which alerts me should a box go down in the middle of the night. I'm also try coding a few dependencies and hierarchical relations into it (if the nearest router goes down, don't complain about stuff past it, it'll obviously be unreachable too)

    Maybe you already wrote that 2 years ago!
    Why don't we start making available the stuff we've already done?

    Anyway, a bit of karma whoring for meeee tooo :-)
    Have a look at mon , a nice package directly off kernel.org, which is sooo nice that I'm actually scrapping my script in favour of it!

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  2. Re:They are out there, for a price. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I wouldn't use TNG ... we tried it at work, to replace monitoring based on shell scripts etc, it was unreliable, put a high load on the system compared with other monitoring packages, (even when just using basic functionality), and caused more problems than it picked up, (This is on AIX, HPUX and NT). We are currently in the process of removing it off of our servers...