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Need to send alertwhen my server is down

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by trackme

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Hi,
I have heard abt NMS ,but dont have any idea abt.I have to design a circuit such that when my server ( windows 2k adv server) is down i shuld a get alert message both in mail and my mobile.
How can i configurem this ,what are the requirements
Plz help

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by miha.pihler

From my own experience I would recommend some good and "smart" software that can distinguish between server down and PING time out for e.g.
Otherwise you will get server down e.g. every night when you do your backup over the network and you have high load on the local network?

There are quite a few commercial products out there. Personally I use two of them. IP Monitor from MediaHouse and MOM (Microsoft Operations Manager).

Both products can alter when the server is down. You can pageor send mail to different people ? depends on the server or the problem (link down, server down, ...). You can also set the time when they send mail (e.g. 9-5) but not at night?

MOM is an Enterprise solution and is quite expensive ?

The only problems are one point of failure devices such as mail servers (no mail server no alert), main router, one ISP connection, etc?

Regards, Mike

by nettek

I assume you have adequate UPS protection? Any decent UPS comes with software that monitors all sorts of conditions, including shutdowns (i.e. power outages). This software also will send notification messages via SMTP. You should also be able to connect a modem to the server, and set the UPS software to page you throught the modem.

Of course, this doesn't help you if your server crashes, but its a start.

As far as total systems monitoring, check out
http://www.ipsentry.com/
http://www.intermapper.com/
http://www.avtech.com/

Hope that helped.

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