The Telecom people are going to let us server folk at their Intermapper server. This is nifty, since we'll be able to build 'maps' that show what's up and down, and also configure e-mailing as a result of what it sees. We've been using BigBrother for a while, and that is clunky. This is more featured, and the notifications can be CONFIGURED!
BigBrother would page/email/whatnot every 5 minutes until the error condition fixes. So if, say, Myfiles went down at 11:45pm, when I get up in the morning my pager would have far too many messages on it. That sort of thing. Intermapper allows you to configure how many times it'll bug you. Cool!
Also, they have a way of creating custom probes. This has me salivating. Their SNMP probes are very customizable, so I should be able to do Neat Things with that. Also, they have a TCP probe format that I might be able to jigger to good use. If I get any of this stuff working, I'll probably post the probe-files here. A good number of contributed probes are available here.
BigBrother would page/email/whatnot every 5 minutes until the error condition fixes. So if, say, Myfiles went down at 11:45pm, when I get up in the morning my pager would have far too many messages on it. That sort of thing. Intermapper allows you to configure how many times it'll bug you. Cool!
Also, they have a way of creating custom probes. This has me salivating. Their SNMP probes are very customizable, so I should be able to do Neat Things with that. Also, they have a TCP probe format that I might be able to jigger to good use. If I get any of this stuff working, I'll probably post the probe-files here. A good number of contributed probes are available here.