>> Has anyone got nocol doing hierarchical conditions, so that when a link
>> is down you dont also get paged with SMTP, Web, Pop, Imap, Ftp and
everything
>> else being down too?
If your looking for a slightly mor advanced paging script for nocol, goto
http://users.hunterlink.net.au/~deimh/software.html There is a paging script
that I wrote to satisfy a similar situation, to can satisfy basic
hierarchical dependancies as well as a few additional functions. Feel free
to add/delete/modify the script for your self, any improvements I'd like to
see so I can add them to mine. It's been designed for SMS paging so the
up/duwn messages are very short, ease enough to expang them though.
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Hunterlink Pty. Ltd. (Australia)
1st Floor, 805 Hunter Street
Dangar, NSW, 2309 Australia
Phone: +61 2 4969 0122 Fax: +61 2 4969 0133
E-Mail: ianh@hunterlink.net.au
PGP: http://users.hunterlink.net.au/~deimh/pgp.html
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-----Original Message-----
From: Roger Burton West [mailto:roger@firedrake.org]
Sent: Wednesday, 13 October 1999 6:36
To: nocol-users@navya.com
Subject: Re: anyone out there
On or about Tue, Oct 12, 1999 at 03:06:43PM -0400, Jonathan A. Zdziarski
typed:
>lots of folks have switched to the commercial software 'netcool' which
>runs about $100,000 or so. it's much nicer, but obviously nocol has its
>own value in being free.
"Much nicer" is an interesting way of putting it. "A total waste of
money" would be more accurate - the probes don't work, all the IP-
based probes _insist on_ DNS rather than IP numbers - so useful if
your nameserver falls over, all of a sudden all the probes fail -
and you need a high-end system to run it on.
I've looked at a lot of different monitoring packages, and they're
all horribly expensive (or freeware). I haven't yet seen one that
worked as well as NOCOL.
>> Has anyone got nocol doing hierarchical conditions, so that when a link
>> is down you dont also get paged with SMTP, Web, Pop, Imap, Ftp and
everything
>> else being down too?
No... but on the other hand I have got a once-every-five-minutes cron
job that tells me all the system status changes in that time.
Roger
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