The Third Commandment of system administration    Tuesday, May 10 2005 @ 12:50 PM EDT Contributed by: glosser The NewsForge continues their series on system administration with part three. We brought you part two last Monday. Nothing will make your team look worse than getting a call from an angry boss wondering why he couldn't get into the company email server all weekend. Server and service monitoring provides a way to know at all times which items on your network are up, which are down, what servers are experiencing issues handling load and just about any other type of availability information you could want. By configuring alerts and notifications, you can be the first to know when a problem on your network arises. III. Thou shalt be the first to know when something goes down Software options for service availability monitoring on the free and open source side include Big Sister, Nagios, and Zabbix among others. While all three of these offer a wide range of abilities and are all excellent pieces of software, the one we will focus on here is Zabbix. Full tutorial   [ Views: 1670 ]

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