superdog
I Need A Drink
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join:2001-07-13
Lebanon, PA
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Re: WISP monitoring...general programs ?
We use Big Brother ( »bb4.com/ ). You can set it up to page You or text Your phone for just about any situation You can think of when it comes to hardware issues. It will also monitor Your servers and watch for full disks, bad disks etc. We also use MRTG to monitor most of our backbones. The Big Brother server should be offsite though, so if Your back bone goes down, it can still get out to send messages etc.
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j2sw
join:2006-05-02
Williamsport, IN | I remember big brother years ago. Then they went crazy on what was considered a free license, what was not, etc. Now you have to e-mail them for a quote. I hate that.
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Airplane777
join:2004-06-20
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Sounds like Big Brother has a lot of alarm monitoring capability.
Do I understand correctly, that Big Brother uses some kind of server to do this hardware monitoring you mentioned? Is it some kind of pinging program thats placed on a server?
When you say offsite, do you mean I can have the Big Brother server located at our office, using one ISP connection. While my WISP system that I want Big Brother to monitor for hardware problems, is located elsewhere, and is connected to a completely different backbone to the Internet?
For BW consumption monitoring of your different clients,is that what you use MRTG for?
As my little WISP system gets larger, I'm going to have to be able to do some kind of alarm monitoring and also BW consumption stats gathering. I had another guy walk into our office today, and tell me when I get my WISP signal in his neighborhood, he'll buy Internet service from me. I can't wait to get more APs up on a tall hill somewhere, so I can serve a very large area. Then I'll really get a bunch more customers. Which means, that I will need to get monitoring software such as you mentioned here. |
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