Auto-notifications when a service fails?

[bluemike]

Can Scalix be configured to notify the sysadmin when a service or daemon stops? I see that one of the services listed in SAC is a 'notification server'. Is that what this is for?

If this function isn't built-in, would you recommend a third-party application?

I realize that a notification email would be impossible if the email server is down, but I have my W2k3 server setup as a simple SMTP reply too. It could be used as the mail server in the event of a Scalix failure.

[ScalixSupport]

Hi,

please have a look at the NAGIOS documentation we ship in the third party directory.

The notification server does something entirely different.

I realize setting up NAGIOS is a challenge for newbies and pro's alike. There are other, more basic monitoring tools available. One that I am using personally is checkservice. That is a set of perl scripts that check for open ports and can send you a notification or run a shell script upon failure.

http://www.linvision.com/checkservice/

http://nagios.org/

Cheers,

sascha.

[ScalixSupport]

Please also take a look at the ommaint script in the admin_resource_kit/ directory. This can be set up as a cron job so that notification of aborted services is sent to a specified address.

Cheers

Dave