Monitoring Co-op

[Mike Diehl (Encrypted email preferred)]

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Thanx for your additinal interest in this idea.

"Highly reliable" means different things to different people.  At work, it 
means having redundant OC3's.  At home, it means treating it as a utility 
just like gas and electric.

Because my wife and I consider Intenet access to be a utility, we want to know 
that we know that it's alive and well.  Thus my interest in this monitoring 
co-op.

Here's how I would do it.  I'd agree to (ping?) monitor a few other people's 
servers in exchange for the same thing from them.  I'd set up their services 
as dependant upon my ISP's router, which I also monitor.  This way, if my 
internet connection drops, my "clients" won't get any alarms when my 
connection is restored.

In the event that my server does down, I'd like an email sent to my alpha 
pager, probably 24x7.

My IP address is dynamic, but my domain name should stay in sync.  Sometimes 
this sync takes a minute or so.  So, the ping poll should be about 5-7 
minutes.

My firewall rules don't usually allow incoming echo requests, but I'm sure 
I'll figure something out.

So, is anyone interested?


On Friday 29 October 2004 03:35 pm, Jeff Scott wrote:
> This is an interesting idea, and I might be willing to contribute.
> However, I would want anybody monitoring my stuff to have a highly
> reliable service, to limit false alerts.  And perhaps develop a method to
> share perf data?????
>
> On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 14:09:29 -0600, Mike Diehl (Encrypted email preferred)
>
> <mdiehl at diehlnet.com> wrote:
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> > Sorry this mail is so late.  I'm just getting to my email.
> >
> > Did you ever get any response to your idea?  I'd be interested in having
> > my
> > server monitored and would be happy to return the favor.  Let me know if
> > you
> > are still interested.
> >
> > On Thursday 30 September 2004 05:01 pm, Scottie Thompson wrote:
> >> I have searched the archives of this list, and several places on the web
> >> to see if Nagios users have talked about helping each other out by
> >> monitoring each other's core critical network routers...I haven't found
> >> any info. The problem is essentially the catch-22: my core router is
> >> down and I want Nagios to shoot email to a pager, but Nagios can't get
> >> to the Internet anymore. So, some have configured Nagios to fire up a
> >> modem and send out a page via SMS; or maybe some are paying for an
> >> external service to monitor those core routers...
> >>
> >> But, is anybody interested in monitoring 3 of my servers (via a simple
> >> ping) in exchange for me monitoring a few of yours? We can talk details
> >> offline...
> >>
> >> Also, if anyone is already doing this I would be very interested on
> >> feedback about tips and pitfalls from this type of thing. TIA.
> >>
> >> Scottie Thompson
> >> Point Loma Nazarene University
> >
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