Dedicated Hosting Monitoring

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benny

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We've been using a dedicated hosting company for a while now, mainly web pages and email services. The relationship's been tough though, with both sides overcommitting and then getting into trouble. As a result, my boss wants the hosting company to manage everything.... keeps telling them that they should know everything that is going on with our services. So he's asked me to get involved and work with them to implement monitoring.... Anyone else have experiences like this and a shopping list this long?

Basic - ICMP Pings, Fan, Power, Memory, Temperature, Fan RPM
Services up/down - FTP, HTTP, HTTPS, ICMP, IMAP, LDAP, POP3, SMTP
Enhanced - Memory, Load, CPU Status, Available Swap Space, Load Average, Disk Space, Buffered Memory, Number of Processes, Cached Memory, Shared Memory, Incoming and Outgoing Mail Queue.

And lastly, how much do you think we should pay?

thanks,
 
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Basic - ICMP Pings, Fan, Power, Memory, Temperature, Fan RPM
Services up/down - FTP, HTTP, HTTPS, ICMP, IMAP, LDAP, POP3, SMTP

<< You can choose Alertra or Siteuptime. They're great.

Enhanced - Memory, Load, CPU Status, Available Swap Space, Load Average, Disk Space, Buffered Memory, Number of Processes, Cached Memory, Shared Memory, Incoming and Outgoing Mail Queue.

<< not sure about this, but I think you can find out in control panel yourself, dont need other company doing this work.
 
You do not necessarily need another company to "manage" this for you. All of these functions can be at your fingertips in a control panel that you can monitor. You can also set alerts so you are notified if anything is "critical" and needs attention. Many colocation facilities allow you to have these control panel features for free. As far as "how much should I spend?", it depends on how much rack space and bandwidth you require. In my opinion, the management tools should be a free service for you to have access to.
 
Nagios

Hello Benny


Also Nagios is a great opensource application that can do this monitoring for you. You can run it on a server from the office if you are on a different network.
 
Hello benny,

For this:
Basic - ICMP Pings, Fan, Power, Memory, Temperature, Fan RPM
Services up/down - FTP, HTTP, HTTPS, ICMP, IMAP, LDAP, POP3, SMTP

I would like to recommend you alertra.com as they offer great services. I've been using them for around 2 years and they are very accurate and offer really helpful features. They can monitor all you need.

About your server inquires I would recommend you to manage it by yourselves.

Regards
 
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