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xseg (eXtented SErver
NetSaint is a program that
Grapher) is a server
will monitor hosts and
monitoring tool. It can
services on your network. It
check whether your server's
has the ability to email or
services are alive. Its
page you when a problem
output is written to an HTML
arises and when a problem is
file. xseg can check the
resolved. NetSaint is
services on both local and
written in C and is designed
remote machines. xseg can
to run under Linux (and most
also run user-defined shell
other *NIX variants) as a
commands and write the
background process,
stdout of these commands to
intermittently running
an output file. This makes
checks on various services
xseg very flexible, since
that you specify. The actual
you can write your own shell
service checks are performed
scripts and xseg will run
by separate
them and capture their
"plugin" programs
output.
which return the status of
the checks to NetSaint.
Several CGI programs are
included with NetSaint in
order to allow you to view
the current service status,
problem history,
notification history, and
log file via the web.
Date: Jan, 22 2006 Date: Jan, 22 2006 |