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Reconnoiter - Anyone using it?

Reconnoiter is a new tool in the world of monitoring. It is not only a trending tool but also an alerting/fault detection one. IMHO, I reckon that it's in the trending capacities that Reconnoiter has a very huge potential. One of the premises…
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Windows Event Log - email notification

Is there an easy way to send an email when a particular severity of event from a particular service hits the Windows server event log? This is on Windows Server 2003, if it makes a difference. n.b. we do have proper monitoring and alerting in place…
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Computer controlled winch

It was a long time coming but I've just had AC installed in my server room. I've also purchased a MiniGoose II from ITWatchDogs which I can't say enough about. So I'm covered by cooling, and I'll be alerted if something goes wrong but what if I'm a…
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Send sql server job alert only when a query has rows to return

I have a query that checks if we've made sales of a particular stock item select * from merchand_history where stock_code = 'zzz007' and create_timestamp >= getdate() order by create_timestamp desc I'd like to have a sql job that emails a user (I…
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How do I handle post-mortems/incident reporting with Nagios?

I just started using Nagios and I like that my team can acknowledge problems, but I haven't yet found a way to log the solutions that are used to correct the problems. Is there a tool that logs Nagios alerts and provides a way to complete…
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What's the best solution for datacenter modem dialling?

We have some physical servers that we cannot virtualise because they are connected to analog modems for alert paging. We need to retain this functionality, but virtualise the servers and reduce the pile of individual modems down to something that…
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Monitoring and alerting tools for small businesses in 2016

This is a kind-of-recurring question, yet the closest one I could find was asked 7 years ago, which was pretty much a different time. I run a small business and we host multiple small-to-medium client websites (nothing that ever required more than a…
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How To Monitor And Alert For KVM Hypervisors

We have an environment where we are currently monitoring ~50 VM hosts running esxi. We easily get alerts for hardware events and exceeding performance thresholds via vcenter. We're planning on adding some KVM hosts to our infrastructure. But we…
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AWS CloudWatch Dashboard for Large Screen Display with Alerting

Does anyone know of a good solution that provides a monitoring and alerting Dashboard for Amazon Web Servics (AWS) CloudWatch service which can used on large screen displays? The system should use the CloudWatch API, not need an agent to be…
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Jenkins build email notification by parsing log

I am using Jenkins to deploy in multiple servers. There are 4 backend servers are running. I have a script called deploy.sh in each server. At the time of deployment, Jenkins create a ssh session and run the deploy.sh script in each server one by…
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How do I silence load alerts?

Within the large set of files that comprise our Nagios server, is service check for load: define service{ use generic-service name check-load hostgroup_name …
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How can I replace email alerts for system events with something more scalable?

I have a number of systems and services that send email alerts when some sort of event takes place. This works fine for a small number of systems but as the number of alerts grows the important message become less visible among the informational…
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How can I be notified when the limit of a cgroup is hit?

I want to use cgroups to limit resources in linux http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cgroups How can I be notified when a limit if hit. For example if I limit a process to 2 gigs or ram how will I know when that is reached if I am not actively monitoring…
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Any QUICK hints for starting off with Splunk

Just downloaded a trial of Splunk, and am thinking of using it to monitor a Windows server base, with the associated apps, e.g.: o Windows event logs / WMI queries (for Windows O/S, SQL Server, Exchange, etc) o Apache/Jboss/Tomcat logs o Oracle…
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Windows Server Login Alert Tools

I am concerned that one of our servers is being abused for a few various reasons. Is there a tool that can send an email when ever a user logons onto the server? I would like to get an email with as much info as possible sent to me in the…
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