Show Notes for AlternaGeek Episode 6

AlternaGeek.com Podcast, Episode 6 for the week of July 16, 2007
Featuring Linuxchic, Code Ninja and TechMonkey.

Website/Server/Service Monitoring

We discuss monitoring your website to make sure that it is available and responding in a timely manner. We cover the difference between agent and agentless monitoring. Various open source software monitoring solutions are mentioned along with discussion of using monitoring service providers if you can’t or don’t want to run your own monitoring server.

Monitoring Software
Nagios
Zenoss
Zabbix
Hyperic
Pandora
Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM)
MS System Center Operation Manager (SCOM)

Internet Communications Status
Internet Health Report

Internet Based Thirdparty Monitoring Services:

MoniTwitter – A couple of servers answering one simple question: What’s your website doing? Receive answers on your phone, IM, or right here on the web! Receive notifications when your website goes down. Keep track of how long it takes your website to load.

Montastic - Get an email when your site goes down and when it goes back up. Read statuses via RSS or Yahoo widget. No unreasonable limit on the number of websites monitored

Linuxchic’s Extra’s:

Tips for Monitoring a Virtual Server Environment

Nagios Exchange: Nagios plugins & extensions repository

Nagios on Ubuntu Quickstart

How to Monitor Wordpress with Nagios

ESX VMware Monitoring