[sclug] Monitor a Windows box with a Linux box?

[Welby McRoberts]

Tom Chance wrote:

>Ahoy,
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>On Wednesday 12 Oct 2005 12:46, Scott Rixon wrote:
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>>Could I use one of my Linux boxes to keep an eye on my Windows boxes?
>>Mainly I am looking for some reporting if a service falls over.
>>Exchange/SQL etc.
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>>Anything out there that might do it? Just thinking out loud really!
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>You could just write a shell script that tries to open a connection with each 
>service, and then run it as a cron job... not fancy but it'd do the job :)
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>Regards,
>Tom
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Also the likes of nagios can monitor services, and with npre-nt or 
similar can monitor other aspects of the machine (cpu load, mem etc etc etc)

Thanks
Welby