[147497] in North American Network Operators' Group
recommendations for external montioring services?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric J Esslinger)
Mon Dec 12 14:12:15 2011
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From: Eric J Esslinger <eesslinger@fpu-tn.com>
To: "'nanog@nanog.org'" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 13:10:54 -0600
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I'm not looking to monitor a massive infrastructure: 3 web sites, 2 mail se=
rvers (pop,imap,submission port, https webmail), 4 dns servers (including l=
ookups to ensure they're not listening but not talking), and one inbound mx=
. A few network points to ping to ensure connectivity throughout my system.=
Scheduled notification windows (for example, during work hours I don't wan=
t my phone pinged unless it's everything going offline. Off hours I do. Sec=
ondary notifications if problem persists to other users, or in the event of=
many triggers. That sort of thing). Sensitivity settings (If web server 1 =
shows down for 5 min, that's not a big deal. Another one if it doesn't resp=
ond to repeated queries within 1 minute is a big deal) A Weekly summary of =
issues would be nice. (especially the 'well it was down for a short bit but=
we didn't notify as per settings')
I don't have a lot of money to throw at this. I DO have detailed internal m=
onitoring of our systems but sometimes that is not entirely useful, due to=
the fact that there are a few 'single points of failure' within our networ=
k/notification system, not to mention if the monitor itself goes offline it=
's not exactly going to be able to tell me about it. (and that happened onc=
e, right before the mail server decided to stop receiving mail).
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