Server Monitoring

Now that I run my main server remotely, I should probably look into monitoring software a little more. You know, software that can tell you at a glance if things are working or not. Luckily, the ISP that hosts my box, MV Communications, runs a pinger that checks to make sure the box is up and responding, so that's a basic check that covers 90% of the problems.

Anyway, I guess I should search my own archives, as I already have a post that describes two of them (Nagios and Big Brother):

Monitoring Programs

There are two others I should look into:

• 
  Munin, found in ports at sysutils/munin-main
  


• monit, found in sysutils/monit