Sapphiron Posted November 17, 2004 Report Share Posted November 17, 2004 Hi All I have a web-based application that I sell to my clients. I want to be infromed whenever that application goes down or a serious error occurs. You know client, thye don't tell you when they have a problem. All they do is get angry and bame the stupid programs What would be the best way for me to monitor these servers. Currently most of my servers are running on Mandrake 10. I also have webmin installed. Is there a way I can monitor it through webmin? PS: I would be handy if it could send an email automatically when a problem occurs. or it can ftp a report file to my ftp server Thanks in advance Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest anon Posted November 17, 2004 Report Share Posted November 17, 2004 Webmin>>>>>>Other>>>>>System and server status>>>> From there you can add a monitor and schedule it to e-mail you if the service goes down etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sapphiron Posted November 17, 2004 Author Report Share Posted November 17, 2004 Ok I set it up, only one problem, the email is no going out. Do i need to configure an email client, or is specifying the smtp server and email address enough? Is there a log file I could check to see if the email generated an error Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest anon Posted November 17, 2004 Report Share Posted November 17, 2004 If you have sendmail set up, then just ticking the Local sendmail executable option is enough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sapphiron Posted November 17, 2004 Author Report Share Posted November 17, 2004 I would prefer not to install sendmail on the servers. I want to keep the server as light as possible. I would really like to know where webmin would keep that log files. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest anon Posted November 17, 2004 Report Share Posted November 17, 2004 You do have a mail server of some type installed though yes? For the log file try /var/ or /var/log/mail Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sapphiron Posted November 18, 2004 Author Report Share Posted November 18, 2004 You do have a mail server of some type installed though yes?For the log file try /var/ or /var/log/mail <{POST_SNAPBACK}> No i do not have a mail server installed. Is there no way I can send an email to an external SMTP server, so that it gets forwarded to my support address at the office. That brings me to another question: How does Webmin acually send an email? does is use something internal to Linux, or does it require software for sending email. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest anon Posted November 18, 2004 Report Share Posted November 18, 2004 Webmin uses sendmail by default, but you can get it to use postfix or any other mail server installed. If none is installed, i don't know if another way is possible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sapphiron Posted November 19, 2004 Author Report Share Posted November 19, 2004 Webmin uses sendmail by default, but you can get it to use postfix or any other mail server installed.If none is installed, i don't know if another way is possible. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Thanks anon Your help is appreciated, I just whish more people could help. Thanks for being the only one to try. I think I should get round to setting up sendmail then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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