On 1/22/06, Lee Sharp <leesharp at hal dash pc dot org> wrote:
> From: "Chris Bagnall" <m0n0wall at minotaur dot cc>
>
> > I'm conscious that given the number of m0n0walls I've now deployed to both
> > clients and friends, I'd really like to have some method of verifying
> > they're all running as they should (and it's a good way of monitoring the
> > ISPs for reliability at the same time).
>
> > Before I go and write a script to ping boxes every few minutes, does
> > anyone
> > have 1) a better way of doing it, and/or 2) any scripts they'd feel
> > comfortable sharing?
>
> I have used The Angel before.  http://www.csd.uwo.ca/staff/magi/doc/angel/
> And of course MRTG.
>

Cricket (http://cricket.sourceforge.net/)  is very configureable and
extensible. For performance monitoring it is among the best. It also
has a rudimentary fault monitoring capability.

--
=Wayne