On Fri, 2002-12-20 at 18:19, Colm MacCarthaigh wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 04:54:36PM +0000, John P. Looney wrote:
> > If you are looking after machines, check out nagios. It's quite good - it
> > does all sorts of monitoring, so you don't have to. You can set it up to
> > monitor all your servers, and email you when things go bad - like the
> > exchange server stops responding to IMAP queries..
> >
> > More importantly, most of the plugins have "warning thresholds"; for
> > instance, I monitor all my machines to make sure that they have at least
> > 20% free on all disk partitions. It's nice to get an email saying the
> > webserver is 85% full, because someone left a PHP page echoing a few dozen
> > kilobytes to disk every time it's hit....before the website falls over.
>> How are you checking the disk space on remote machines ? The only
> nice way I could think of doing it was creating an unencrypted ssh key
> which limited what could be run to one script, e.g:
>> no-port-forwarding,no-X11-forwarding,no-agent-forwarding,no-pty,command="~/bin/stats"
> <rest of ssh public key>
>are you worried about security? why not just stick a script on a port
with inetd which gives back the stats you want (and then firewall that
port off).
L.
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