[lug] 3 Questions: 1) Port Forwarding 2) Unison 3) Job Management Software 4) Test Apache

[Hugh Brown]

> 3)  Any thoughts on Job Management Software?
> I want to set up servers to do automated Backup and Status-type tasks.
> ie - Do Backups, filter some logs and post advisories, test that Apache isn't frozen, connect with home base and send the backups, etc.
> I can start writing scripts, but in the past, I lived in large environments with such systems.
> As things get more complicated and have more dependencies, it's nice to have a package in place.
> Any thoughts?

Nagios is a nice free tool that will do monitoring, etc.


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> 4)  I have a number of Servers up.  Regularly, Apache freezes.  I can look at processes, I don't see anything wierd, but it does respond to a Browser.
> Any idea how a Server can actually see if Apache is reponding to connects?
>

Nagios has a service that monitors http.  I believe it does a simple GET
or HEAD.  If Apache isn't repsonding, it would/should notice.

FWIW,

Hugh