[BBLISA] simpler alternative to Nagios

[Daniel Feenberg]

On Fri, 27 Aug 2010, Alex Aminoff wrote:

> Hi folks. I need a better monitoring system. I currently use something I
> wrote 10 years ago using parts of Spong and other bits.
>
...
> preferably few parentheses. In fact, how about if my config file is DNS?
> Start with pinging everything in my domain, if there is an MX record
> pointing to it check SNMP, if "www" points to it check port 80. For
> exceptions to that general case, have a config file.

A brilliant idea. Later, if you wanted to extend the configuration 
information you could use SRV records, or DNS comments - assuming you 
intend to read the DNS zone file in source.

Daniel Feenberg



>
> I like BigBrother's config file, but BB's implementation is a snarl of
> shell script that does not do a good job of producing transparent error
> messages when things are not exactly right. At least for the
> non-commercial version, which does not appear to be maintained. And BB
> has agents on the clients too.
>
> Or perhaps I should just run nmap on my network every 10 minutes and
> alert me if there is a diff from the previous results. Prone to false
> positives I would think.
>
>  - Alex
>
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