[WBEL-users] monitoring strange behavior help

[Benjamin Smith]

On Friday 04 March 2005 12:25, Alon wrote:
> With respect to BB,.. that's a very expensive solution. That is if you 
> intend to play by the rules and pay for the commercial product.
> Did you actually pay the amounts they ask for?

Man, their prices have CHANGED!!!!! 

I bought it years ago, I think it was like $300-$400, and I don't remember any 
per-client fee... (WTF?) I better make sure I have a backup copy of my 
sources... ;^) It's a nice product, though. Sucks when a company gets 
greedy... 

I've also used nagios, but I found it too complicated for my taste. 
http://www.nagios.org/

-Ben 

> - Alon
> js at wsco.com
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Benjamin Smith" <lists at benjamindsmith.com>
> To: <whitebox-users at beau.org>; "Erick Perez" <eaperezh at gmail.com>
> Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 9:17 PM
> Subject: Re: [WBEL-users] monitoring strange behavior help
> 
> 
> > On Friday 04 March 2005 05:48, Erick Perez wrote:
> >> searching the logs reveal nothing strange (at least for me, but im no
> > genious)
> >
> > Sounds like a hardware issue - stuff like this is almost *NEVER* software.
> >
> > As a first step: Check to make sure all your fans (esp. CPU) are good and 
> > spin
> > at full speed when powered up, then unplug and reconnect all cables and
> > chips.  (CPU, RAM, etc) Often it can be a flaky cable or socket... Also, 
> > plug
> > the server into a UPS to eliminate flaky power, see if that improves 
> > things.
> > A cheapie 45-minute, $75 one is worlds better than none at all.
> >
> >> Do you know of some script or program that can alert me when unusual
> >> conditions begin to happen in the server? like cpu increase? ram
> >> increase? swap?
> >> some process eating up resources?
> >
> > The grand-daddy of them all? Big Brother. It's one of my best friends! It
> > polls all my servers every 5 minutes and sends alerts to my cell phone 
> > when
> > anything goes wrong... even when a needed process dies! http://www.bb4.org
> >
> > IMHO, You aren't serious about your stuff unless you are using a tool like
> > this! Serious peace of mind, and customers love it when you catch 
> > something
> > and call before they even notice it's not working...
> >
> >> most importat is any way to set up some system wide "nice" level so
> >> the apps do not eat up the CPU/RAM, so when the condition happens
> >> again, I will at least have the chance to get in and take a look?
> >
> > See above re: hardware. If you think it'd help, I'd suggest writing a 
> > quick
> > script to write the output of top repeatedly to a file. EG:
> >
> > #! /bin/sh
> > while [ true ] ; do
> > top -n1 > /path/to/log/file.txt
> > sleep 5; # minimize performance beatings
> >  # set to whatever you like in seconds.
> > done;
> >
> >> Many thanks in advance
> >> -- 
> >>
> >> -------------------------------------------
> >> Erick Perez
> >> Linux User 376588
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