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Potential Bot-Net organizers probing for new machines?
I'm getting a number of exploit attempts from different IP's today.
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ossec email alerts
Just installed ossec and sendmail however can't able to get alerts to my gmail from ossec. I am able to see the alerts on the sendmail localhost, however alerts seem to be not forwarding to gmail.
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How do I realert Scom Monitors?
There's a "rule of monitors" that a user of scom might be aware of. If you have an alert that was generated by a monitor (as opposed to a rule that generates alerts) do not close it and let it close ...
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Alerting on file share access
I am running a users file share on Windows 2008R2.
My concern is Domain Admins accessing someone's files they shouldn't.
I have turned on advanced auditing and tested the results. I see when ...
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Modify swatch conf files to match multiple lines below a match
We use swatch for reading PHP logs and email them to us. Currently it emails one single line of the error, but fails to match the next few lines of stack trace.
For example: for log file like this:
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Nagios (or a similar tool) with more variety in alert levels?
I'm looking at monitoring and alerting for some of our business metrics in a web app (pageviews, signups, etc). We already use Nagios and Munin for a wide variety of server monitoring and alerting ...
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How can I configure icinga/nagios to alert via sms?
I know the sms gateway for my cell phone provider so I can just send an email to it.
I am looking for examples of entries in contacts.cfg and commands.cfg that are mobile specific.
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Nagios alerts using twitter (with twurl) not firing
We've been using nagios for some time and have recently decided to change how we receive alerts. To this end, we've installed twurl ( https://github.com/marcel/twurl ) and are using it to send alerts. ...
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Log monitoring and alert utility
Actually we use ManageEngine's Application Manager to monitor some client servers that host Oracle Databases and some JBoss applications. Unfortunately App Manager doesn't work so fast as i wish so i ...
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How do I get my HP servers to email me when a drive fails?
Ideally, with as simple of install as possible and without requiring rebooting the servers. Mostly for DL380 G5's if it helps. Thanks.
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SQL Server Alert Based On Severity Level Not Working
I am new to SQL Server alerts, and I am trying to setup an alert based on the severity level, that should run a job and send notifications.
In order to test if the alert works correctly I have ...
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DBMS_ALERT slow to trigger on RAC
I asked a question earlier about whether DBMS_ALERT works on the RAC. The answer was yes, and I have set up a VMWare test environment and confirmed it.
However, there seems to be a long delay ...
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Email Notifications for System Performance Windows Server 2008 R2
I am trying to figure out how to apply email notifications to system performance triggers for example high CPU, High RAM usage, low disk space etc.
I have tried googling it but I am unable to find a ...
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How can I make Status Information for Nagios services easier to read?
I'm running Nagios in an environment with several servers, each with several services on them. There are a few custom checks, but it's nice to use existing checks if possible. I'm using NRPE plugin ...
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Troubleshooting Nagios alerts; aka. Why aren't my alerts firing?
I'm attempting to add email alerts to an existing Nagios install. I've been using the web interface to keep an eye on some non-critical systems for a few months and it's been running well; warnings ...
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Different notification interval when service is critical
I've got a service in Nagios that checks how much disk space is used on a server.
When over 80% is used, the service is in a warning state. When it's over 97% it's considered critical.
When the ...
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How to setup alerts for printers, toner low, etc? IPSwitch-What's Up?
I'm wanting to setup alerts for our printers so that when the printer encounters an error, it will send an alert to an email address. Currently we have What's Up Standard, and it looks like you can ...
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Sun X4100 ILOM: Silence warning of power supply without power
Does anyone know how to tell an X4100 not to bring up the orange light in the front about a specific power supply? I am assuming it would be through the ILOM, but I am not getting far. I have looked ...
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Server Cloud Monitoring
I'm a consultant that has around 100 clients and I would love to monitor all my clients networks, preferably from the cloud so I can tell if their Internet is down. I would like for it to offer a lot ...
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Alert Management Software
A few months ago I came up with an idea for our small business regarding alert management. We have a number of engineers and developers on our team, and each one has different clients. A developer ...
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(Windows) Real-time monitoring of log files & regex pattern matching to trigger email alerts
Is there an application that can monitor a number of log files (text) and watch for regular expression pattern matches, then send email alerts when it finds one? I'm looking for something that will ...
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SQL Server 2008: Mirroring: Threshold Alerts at Database-Level
Testing I have completed to date seems to indicate that the following Threshold Alerts need to be defined for the <all databases> Database Name rather than a single named database:
Unsent Log ...
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Send email when status of tape drive changes
I want to send an email when the tape drive is empty and when the tape drive is filled. I use RHEL 5.
I don't want to check using a script every X seconds to test if the tape status is changed. There ...
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Do anyone know a good commercial system for sending service notification emails?
Once in a while we all have a need for sending email notifications to our customers about disturbances of different kinds. For the moment we are using plain email for this, because our email ticketing ...
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How can I stop my Sonicwall NSA 240 to stop sending me alerts about “possible port scans?”
I couldn't care less about port scans and I like to have alerts emailed to me. Instead of seeing important alerts (losing a WAN line, catching malware, etc) I'm getting tons and tons of "possible port ...
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Smarter System Alerts
We have a pretty simple system setup, where I get text messages when there is a system problem. It's nothing fancy. I send an email to my phone number within my logging class for alert levels. It ...
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Alerting when a RAID Array disk fails locally on VMWare ESX or ESXi System
With ESX and ESXi, we recently had two systems where that the boot partition became degraded due to a failed disk. The only alert we managed to capture was the visual alert on the Dell servers. We ...
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Microsoft Exchange group calendar for periodic events/alerts
I have a user request to create a shared calendar resource containing events (not meetings) that may be of interest to a small subset of my users, e.g. deadlines, contract expirations, etc. This ...
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Best 'free' option for alert notifications other than email/SMS
Looking for a Linux script solution that can send alerts to a service such as Twitter, Skype or Google Talk and sends to Android and iPhone clients.
Have found twurl for Twitter with previous Bash ...
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Send Log File Changes Via Email
I'm running Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition and need to send text log file updates to an email address. E.g. IIS logs, and other plain text files.
It would be good if these could be filtered ...
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Internet Connection
I have two Internet Broadband Connections with Load Balancing Server.
Is there any tool available so I can monitor my internet connections and alert me for connection up/down status incase if any ...
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Is there a monitoring software suite that will alert me if it has received no activity in a time period?
This might be a very basic question, but I am not very familiar with the exact features of Nagios versus Munin versus other monitoring tools.
Let's say we have a process that needs to run daily for ...
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How can I delete all alerts for a user in Sharepoint 2007 without visiting every site?
A user leaves the organisation. Their account is removed from active directory. Their user object does not get removed from Sharepoint, and their alerts remain in place. This generates ...
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VMWare ESX Datastore Usage Monitoring and Alerting
I am trying to find the easiest way to receive alerts on datastore usage for my ESX 4.1 hosts. I have virtual center. My hosts are connected to Equallogic SAN's, and I would like to somehow get, at ...
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Smartphone app to sound an alarm when a specific email is received
This may be borderline Server Fault, so I'm cool if it's decided this question is migrated elsewhere.
As a sysadmin, I am responsible for responding to any monitoring alerts which occur out of hours. ...
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Navigational Pop-up alerts [closed]
Here lately while filling out some online job applications and using an online diary I will get these random intermitten pop-up alerts asking me if I really want to navigate away from this page even ...
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Is there a good monitoring, alerting tool with a trouble ticketing system + de-duplication & intelligent suppression of alerts?
I have been a nagios user for a long time.
Of late, as the size of our server fleet grew, so did the number of alerts from nagios. Signal-to-noise ratio has become very low.
eg. When a common ...
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Simple tool for mointoring web/FTP/DNS/mail servers?
I have a few servers with the common services running (apache, imap, pop, smtp, ftp, ssh, svn, etc...) and would like to monitor their availability.
In particular, I would like to be alerted (email ...
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debian app to email me when disk is low and on file changes?
I have a similar question. I tried iWatch but ATM it doesnt seem to email me. but also i dont believe it will watch disk space. That isnt advertise on their homepage.
What app can i use to email me ...
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Sending alerts with Database Mail
I've been looking into SQL Server alerts and it looks like I need to enable database mail on the server to be able to send e-mail alerts. The other solution appears to be to send those events to ...
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Can I have notifications/alerts sent by IM to a Skype account from a headless machine?
I want to make my network monitoring system send IM alerts, and the IM client of choice at my workplace is Skype.
Is there a command-line driven API, that doesn't require the GUI Skype client, so I ...
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How do you monitor and react when some scheduled job fails? - general question
In many projects my team faced problems with 'silent fails' of some important components. There are lot of tasks executed behind the scenes and if somethings fails (either by errors in logic or ...
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SQL Server 2005 Replication Subscription Expiring Warning
This week one of my replication subscriptions expired because I wasn't getting any alerts saying that there was a login error (I've fixed those alerts and the error). What I'd like now is, in the ...
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Network email alerts
I would like to buy or d/l an application that will alert our sysadmin in the event of network failure, like via email and/or phone call. I've looked around the net before posting this question, but I ...
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Website and Web Services Monitoring
I'm looking for a good product (either stand-alone or remote) that will monitor our online services. We're in a transition period between new asp.net and old foxpro / cgi and because of this ...
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Error reporting whilst away from desk
Just purchased some VPS hosting and am getting setup to get my startup app underway. For the moment I'm playing sysadmin and am running into errors galore whilst trying to work out the kinks.
So I ...
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MediaTemple tcpsndbuf QoS Alerts
I'm hosting with MediaTemple on a (dv) Dedicated-Virtual 3.5 server. My site consists of a Wordpress blog, some custom PHP pages (nothing too intense), and I server 500-700 unique visitors per day.
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Use Google analytics to alert on traffic spike source
I use Google Analytics today to notify me of big traffic spikes. In my case, a big traffic spike is typically due to a link from a prominent website.
Google Analytics includes a new "Intelligence" ...
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Low disk space email alert
Very simply I am trying to trigger an email alert from a Windows 2003 server to tell me when the disk space is low.
Has anyone had experience with setting this up?
Thank you.
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Setting Low Disk Space Alerts on Windows Server 2008
I was wondering if there is an easy way to trigger an e-mail alert on Windows Server 2008 when any logical disk partitions become low on space. I have 2 SQL servers that have come close to running ...
