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typhoon43
Joined: 23 Mar 2006
Posts: 16
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 Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2006 10:02 am Post subject: Easiest way to monitor downed servers? |
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Trying to replace our MRTG/BigBro combo with Cacti. I have the Monitor and Threshold plugins installed. I would like something to email me if a server or switch doesn't respond to ping after a certain amount of time. I see the Monitor plugin does the sound alarm, but I can't find any email options. So are you guys setting a LOW Threshold of 0 bytes on the devices to get your down alerts using Threshold instead?
So far, I LOVE this program. Just need to tweak it a bit more so I can finally ditch this Debian box (I have no clue to how to admin it, so it's got to go  ) |
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mgb
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Joined: 21 Jun 2004
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Location: North of the Netherlands
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Thold is not only monitoring thresholds. It also sends an email when a device goes down.
Does your email from withine threshold work? You should be able to send yourself a test email. |
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typhoon43
Joined: 23 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 7:40 am Post subject: |
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| mgb wrote: | Thold is not only monitoring thresholds. It also sends an email when a device goes down.
Does your email from withine threshold work? You should be able to send yourself a test email. |
Yes the threshold emails come in on the alarms I set up as a test. I guess since I have the polling set to 2 rounds before alarm, I'm not getting an email unless a server is down for over 10 minutes. |
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