From: jose n. n. <jos...@li...> - 2005-05-12 09:50:57
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Yep you're right I should test these modules, but I was finishing a proposal and needed hints on how should I do the job but this insights have been helpful thanxs On Wednesday 11 May 2005 18:28, Joe Cooper wrote: > jose nuno neto wrote: > > On Tuesday 10 May 2005 21:54, Joe Cooper wrote: > >>jose nuno neto wrote: > >>>Hi, > >>> > >>>I'm looking for a tool to manage/monitor several servers.Not a cluster > >>> of servers, just several Linux servers. > >>> > >>>Mainly I need to check if their running, check services like ssh and > >>> edit cronjobs. > >>> > >>>I'm a Webmin user on other projects, so I took a look at webmin site and > >>>found the cluster packages, could these be used? > >>>Or is there other module best fit for this? > >> > >>You want the System and Server Status module for the monitoring. > > > > Can I have a unified view of all the servers with this module, or I must > > install webmin on all the servers and go login/check on each server? > > I'm looking for a unified view of all the server so I can "look" at all > > the servers status.Something like the RedHat network did > > Umm...Red Hat Network is a software package management system (which > does provide support for many servers), and not a status monitoring > system at all. For package management you want Cluster Software > Packages, though it's implementation is quite a bit different from the > RHN implementation (better in many ways, inferior in others). I'm > having trouble keeping up with what you're trying to do! ;-) > > The System and Server Status module is a monitoring system. It does not > require Webmin to be installed on the monitored server for many types of > checks (like pings, HTTP up, SMTP up, etc.), but for many others > (service running, disk space, free memory, file exists, etc.) Webmin has > to be running and needs to be configured in your "central" Webmin > Servers list (i.e. whichever box you want to call you network management > system will need to be setup to login to all of the others). > > You know, you could just /try/ what you want to do with Webmin and the > Cluster packages and System and Server Status...and come back here if > you have problems doing what you want. It would probably give you > answers faster, and we might end up speaking about the same problems > rather than talking past one another. It would also help a lot if you'd > make up your mind what you want to do--you can ask about all of these > things, but don't call a cat a dog and ask if the Webmin Cat module can > manage your Dog--use the Dog module for your dogs and the Cat module for > your Cats*. That is the key to happiness. > > *-Cat and Dog modules referenced for example purposes only. Do not > attempt to join your Dog to your Webmin Servers index. > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by Oracle Space Sweepstakes > Want to be the first software developer in space? > Enter now for the Oracle Space Sweepstakes! > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7393&alloc_id=16281&op=click > - > Forwarded by the Webmin mailing list at web...@li... > To remove yourself from this list, go to > http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/webadmin-list |