well i was looking to monitor my exchange server, PDC, SQL server, 4 Samba 
servers, 5 webservers, 3 DNS servers, my routers and switches, and 3 MySQL 
servers. in this senario would netsaint be an overkill? i am trying out ntop 
right now, what is your feeling about this app?

as for NEAT, i check the netsaint.cfg and netsaint_user=contains my netsaint 
user and not the apacheuser. :~(

slr

On Thursday 27 June 2002 03:50 pm, Lowell Hamilton wrote:
> > maybe a better question would be, is Netsaint worth the hassle? are there
> > better tools for this that are easier to setup?
>
> Depends on what you want to monitor .. if you want to check a tiny
> webserver or just a couple little hosts with the most basic checks,
> netsaint is a lot of extra hassle.  Netsaint doesn't become really handy
> until  you start implementing larger networks or have several hosts
> monitoring  dozens of services each.  I have a 5100-point of failure
> netsaint install going watching almost 100 points of failure on several
> machines, something no other opensource monitoring software could handle
> without blowing the system up or becoming unmaintainable.  For small
> stuff though, hit freshmeat .. software like bigbrother would probably
> work.
>
> In regards to your problem, it sounds like NEAT set the userid in
> /usr/local/netsaint/etc/netsaint.cfg  to apacheuser ... edit this file
> and make sure all the paths and users are correct for what you need.
>
> Lowell
>
> On Thu, 2002-06-27 at 15:04, slr wrote:
> > slr
> >
> > On Thursday 27 June 2002 02:14 pm, slr wrote:
> > > Ok here goes, cause i guess i am going to be one of those that will
> > > struggle. i downloaded and installed NEAT4.9 because at 1st glance it
> > > looked like it would make administration easier. i can pull up the web
> > > interface and edit the host.cfg, which BTW i couldnt do by using the
> > > httpd default group and chmod g+w host.cfg as suggested in the
> > > README.txt for NEAT. the problem now is when i try to verify and
> > > restart netsaint using the NEAT web interface i get this error msg:
> > >
> > > ERROR - userid apacheuser (this is not the real default httpd user)
> > > cannot run /usr/local/netsaint/bin/netsaint to verify your config. This
> > > is probably your httpd userid. Fix this
> > >
> > > i am not sure why it is using this apache user, it is not entered in
> > > the netsaint.cfg file. any ideas?
> > >
> > > slr
> > >
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