[Gllug] Network maps

Jim Bailey jim at freesolutions.net
Fri Sep 27 15:19:11 UTC 2002


On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 10:55:23AM +0100, Adam Bower wrote:
> John Hearns wrote:
> >Cheops has a useful feature for simple monitoring - ie, you can ping,
> >or make an HTTP transfer, or SMTP or DNS on chosen machines at
> >given intervals of time (say five minutes). Cheops will alarm when
> >it misses a connection.
> >Sadly cheops-ng does not have the alarm feature yet.
> 
> Using Big Brother for this now :) going to roll it out on everything 
> important soon.
>
We use BB at work it alright but not Free software or Open Source and it
is a shit for somethings, long term we are looking at alternatives such
as Big Sister and others.

Peace Jim

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