| Posted by andretenreiro, 03-26-2010, 01:18 PM | | I want to monitor the uptime of one of my services.
Since I have a VPS, what is the best application to monitor my server services (ping, www, imap, etc)?
Zabbix seems a cool application but it might be too much comprehensive.
Something like uptime services such as:
www.siteuptime.com
www.serviceuptime.com
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| Posted by Hostwaresupport, 03-26-2010, 01:36 PM | | You can install either nagios or cacti. Both are good monitoring tools available now a days.
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| Posted by activelobby4u, 03-27-2010, 06:16 AM | | If you are looking at simple service monitoring for one server, you could try a custom shell script. For multiple servers and service monitoring nagios is my choice
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| Posted by keserhosting, 03-27-2010, 06:41 AM | | Yeap, I fully agree with activelobby4u, as nagios works great for monitoring multiple servers.
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| Posted by jadursupport, 03-27-2010, 07:05 AM | | Zabbix has the best features of monarch, nagios and cacti combined, and then even more features added to that. Zabbix is an evolutionary advancement over the likes of Nagios. May be a bit confusing for new user but once you got Idea how to use it it generates FULL statistics for you.
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| Posted by ksv2nash, 03-27-2010, 08:07 AM | | Hello,
You can use scripts which show's you if there is high load on server....
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| Posted by Crashus, 03-27-2010, 08:43 AM | | Nagios will do the trick, custom script can be used too.
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| Posted by the_wanderer, 03-27-2010, 11:57 PM | | Agreed with above. Nagios for up / down of services and ping.
Cacti for performance monitoring and capacity planning.
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| Posted by assistanz247, 03-28-2010, 05:47 AM | | Nagios can do all these things and if you have a good admin you can use Nagios for load monitoring, weekly/monthly reports etc. Even you can have sms alerts in nagios. Configuration is bit complex but overall its a fantastic tool.
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| Posted by SerayaHost, 03-31-2010, 01:06 AM | | For Nagios, we have to do some installation on the OS. Are there any apps that we don't have to install anything? I mean web based apps?
Thanks..
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| Posted by Sileep Kumar M S, 03-31-2010, 02:33 AM | | You need to use custom scripts for this.
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| Posted by SerayaHost, 03-31-2010, 02:58 AM | | Hello,
Any ready to used script for this?
Thanks..
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| Posted by Sileep Kumar M S, 04-01-2010, 01:18 AM | | I have a custom script to check the service status of my servers. There is a lot of custom scripts available in net, just search google.
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| Posted by SerayaHost, 04-01-2010, 02:55 AM | | Any suggested specific keyword?
Thanks..
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| Posted by SerayaHost, 04-01-2010, 06:26 AM | | Forget my question..
Got it..
Thanks...
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| Posted by whmcsguru, 04-01-2010, 05:24 PM | | nagios is an ok app, but it's a pain to configure, and requires ICMP which is known to have flaws in it.
If you've got multiple servers, you may want to brush up on your php, specifically fsockopen (for generic ports), parse_url (for checking webserver status), ftp_connect for handling ftp server status, and there's a few others.
You can easily put together a script to check servers, I think the last time I rewrote my cron check to do just that it took 2-3 hours at best.
HTH
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| Posted by inspiron, 04-02-2010, 08:37 PM | | Nagios is pretty good for monitering http, snmp, ftp, smtp, ping, tcp and udp services. It would suits to your requirements.
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| Posted by a1web-Tim, 04-07-2010, 12:36 AM | | We have a backup monitoring service, (in addition to Nagios), that we have been using for more than 2 years, that is web based and we are very pleased with their performance.
w w w. server-monitoring. n e t
Take their free service for a test run (http only), and then you can add other services to suit your needs at fairly decent costs.
Tim
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| Posted by anon-e-mouse, 04-07-2010, 03:00 AM | | Who monitors them when their page is a 404?
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| Posted by a1web-Tim, 04-07-2010, 05:23 AM | | My bad ... was a typo
w w w. servers-monitoring. n e t
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