From: Timothy J M. <tm...@ob...> - 2011-09-22 21:53:14
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I was going to say exactly that. Using e-mail as a monitoring system is a very poor substitute. Nagios is a great start in true network monitoring. Timothy J. Massey Out of the Box Solutions Inc. Sent from my iPad On Sep 22, 2011, at 9:03 AM, "Brad Alexander" <st...@gm...> wrote: > Another option would be, if you have to have that positive affirmation, and if you are running Nagios on your network, there is a plugin/check called check_backuppc, which will issue an alert in Nagios if any monitored host does not get backed up. From the help file: > > $ check_backuppc -h > check_backuppc - 1.1.0 > A Nagios plugin to check on BackupPC backup status. > > Options: > --hostname,-H only check the specified host > --exclude,-x do not check the specified host > --archive-only,-a only check the archive hosts > --backup-only,-b only check the backup hosts > --status-only,-s only check backup status, omit connection failures that are > less than $Conf{FullPeriod} old > --warning,-w days old an errored host must be to cause a warning > --critical,-c number of days old an errored backup must be to be critical > --reduce,-r maximum number of failed hosts for severity reduction > --verbose,-v increase verbosity > --version,-V display plugin version > --help,-h display this message > > --b > > On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 6:42 PM, Aleksey Tsalolikhin <ats...@gm...> wrote: > Hi. I'm running BackupPC 3.1.0 for about 3 years now and love it. It > just works. > > I go into the Web admin UI once a week or so and check the host > summary to make sure backups are chugging along. > > Is it possible for BackupPC to email me that summary? > > I looked at /usr/bin/BackupPC_sendEmail but it looks like it will only > email if BackupPC is down. > > Thanks, > -at > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a > definitive record of customers, application performance, security > threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes > sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy1 > _______________________________________________ > BackupPC-users mailing list > Bac...@li... > List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net > Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a > definitive record of customers, application performance, security > threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes > sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy1 > _______________________________________________ > BackupPC-users mailing list > Bac...@li... > List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net > Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ |