itgeek Posted January 7, 2011 Posted January 7, 2011 Hi I would like to be notified when our servers go down or reboot etc. Thanks
plexer Posted January 7, 2011 Posted January 7, 2011 Warning!!!!!! Warning!!!!! Your server is down. How would you like your notification, carrier pigeon? Please give a bit more meat to your request. Have you looked for any solutions yet yourself? what have you discovered? Ben
EduTech Posted January 7, 2011 Posted January 7, 2011 Hi, Take a look at OP Smart Monitor from Ozan @ OP Software OP SmartMonitor | Help desk Software, Customer Service Software, Support Ticket Software, Trouble Ticketing System, Asset Management Software James. 2
itgeek Posted January 7, 2011 Author Posted January 7, 2011 Ok so I would like two peoeple to be emailed when the servers reboot or shutdown. We have hp and dell servers. Thanks
EduTech Posted January 7, 2011 Posted January 7, 2011 Ok so I would like two peoeple to be emailed when the servers reboot or shutdown. We have hp and dell servers. Thanks Have you looked at the Open Managment from DELL and HP? this may give you the options you require. just not sure what would happen if you Mail Server went down. So, you may have to look at other options such as Simple Server Monitor - Server Monitoring Software or http://www.gfi.com/nsm/ James.
localzuk Posted January 7, 2011 Posted January 7, 2011 Nagios would be my choice. You can set it up to notify you via email, jabber, sms or any other method (so long as you have some form of script telling it what to do on the nagios server). http://www.nagios.org/
glennda Posted January 7, 2011 Posted January 7, 2011 Your could try for something free is downloading Zag's server monitor and then customizing the down part into sending you an email. but you would need to learn a bit of PHP for that Toby
ICTNUT Posted January 7, 2011 Posted January 7, 2011 Ok so I would like two peoeple to be emailed when the servers reboot or shutdown. We have hp and dell servers. Thanks The easiest thing would be to create an email distrbution group and add the users that you need to be notified to that group. Within OP SmartMonitor simply add the email address of the group and they will get the email.
zag Posted January 7, 2011 Posted January 7, 2011 It would be pretty easy to add a "send email if server was down" option to my PHP app. I'm guessing then someone could schedule a task in windows to load the page every 30mins.
glennda Posted January 7, 2011 Posted January 7, 2011 It would be pretty easy to add a "send email if server was down" option to my PHP app. I'm guessing then someone could schedule a task in windows to load the page every 30mins. I have it running on an Xibo screen in my office on a rolling thing between that and a few other stuff - so have it refreshed every min. I was going to edit it for the email part but havn't quite got round to it yet.
pran Posted January 8, 2011 Posted January 8, 2011 We use Zoho's (formerly AdventNet) ManageEngine OpManager to monitor our servers. You can use it for free for up to 10 devices (e.g. servers, switches, routers, etc.). It's easy to setup. Can run on Linux and on Windows servers (for WMI communication).
schoolhelp2010 Posted January 13, 2011 Posted January 13, 2011 We just installed Eagleye from a local company - so far very good, it emails us, Txts us, we can see even if a service is down. spoke to a guy called Sam if there was a way to monitor toners etc with spending 1000's, has any one else used somthing like this? They say it monitors the whole server and all updates services, patches etc..
FN-GM Posted January 13, 2011 Posted January 13, 2011 Hi, Take a look at OP Smart Monitor from Ozan @ OP Software OP SmartMonitor | Help desk Software, Customer Service Software, Support Ticket Software, Trouble Ticketing System, Asset Management Software James. Never used this myself but i have heard very good reports about it!
Sparticus Posted January 14, 2011 Posted January 14, 2011 We just installed Eagleye from a local company - so far very good, it emails us, Txts us, we can see even if a service is down. spoke to a guy called Sam if there was a way to monitor toners etc with spending 1000's, has any one else used somthing like this? They say it monitors the whole server and all updates services, patches etc.. Hi there, yes Eagleye 24/7 is a network monitoring tool that will monitor pretty much everything, back up, harddrives, antivirus, email etc you can even set thresholds so that it will let you know about toner levels, it can also monitor humidity and power. Eagleye 24/7 monitors all critical services on the network and server. If you are interested I can let you know where to get it from
glennda Posted January 14, 2011 Posted January 14, 2011 We just installed Eagleye from a local company - so far very good, it emails us, Txts us, we can see even if a service is down. spoke to a guy called Sam if there was a way to monitor toners etc with spending 1000's, has any one else used somthing like this? They say it monitors the whole server and all updates services, patches etc.. We have it built into papercut that monitors the toner on the printer along with the users printing T
EduTech Posted January 15, 2011 Posted January 15, 2011 Keep an Eye on OPSmartDesk! You will be pleased to hear of some updates coming soon that will cure this problem for many people! Very Exciting James.
chrisbrown Posted January 17, 2011 Posted January 17, 2011 If you're feeling lazy enough, here's a simple PowerShell script we use here. Still in development - need to allow it to drop a ping or two before emailing (it's a little premature), but works well for our needs. Will monitor any device that can respond to pings. Firstly, edit the variables up top in Invoke-PingStats.ps1 To add a host to be monitored, run .\Add-Host.ps1 -hostname optionally you can add -configfile and/or -ip parameters. eg. .\Add-Host.ps1 Google (will look up via DNS for IP) or .\Add-Host.ps1 -hostname google-public-dns-a.google.com -ip 8.8.8.8 To begin, simply run .\invoke-pingstats.ps1. PingStats.zip
JakeHendy Posted January 23, 2011 Posted January 23, 2011 Have you heard of Spiceworks? Brilliant community, great software and efficient too! Hope this helps Jake
imiddleton25 Posted January 23, 2011 Posted January 23, 2011 SpiceWorks will not provide immediate notification when a server goes down. If it finds that a server is down when it does its scan it will report it at that time. You can increase the frequency of your scans to help compensate, but it will not provide the instant notification that you may require.
JakeHendy Posted January 23, 2011 Posted January 23, 2011 Oh really? At our school we took down a VM and it notified us within minutes! Is it possible that it can keep an eye on a subnet or am I just thinking we were incredibly coincidental that our scan ran?
featured_spectre Posted January 23, 2011 Posted January 23, 2011 OP Software is the way forward, and I am not just saying that as they are a sponsor. The dev listens to what people want and has made progs to an impecibly high standard. Cannot fault it!
chrisbrown Posted January 23, 2011 Posted January 23, 2011 Oh really? At our school we took down a VM and it notified us within minutes! Is it possible that it can keep an eye on a subnet or am I just thinking we were incredibly coincidental that our scan ran? If "within minutes" is acceptable for you, then by all means, use SpiceWorks. My script notifies me within seconds. I have ~60 hosts in that script and it tells me within usually 5 or 6 seconds when something goes down. I don't know about your requirements...but that's damn quick.
featured_spectre Posted January 23, 2011 Posted January 23, 2011 Chris can you PM me info on what it is you use please.
chrisbrown Posted January 23, 2011 Posted January 23, 2011 Chris can you PM me info on what it is you use please. Scroll up, sunshine. http://www.edugeek.net/forums/windows-server-2008-r2/68488-server-down-notification-2.html#post615584 1
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