ZoneEdit is a great DNS host. Right price and great service. Just point your Registrar (godaddy in my case) to ZoneEdit and they have a nice and easy interface for managing your DNS.
I’d like something similar for network monitoring. I use Nagios for internal monitoring but if my machines have any critical problems I’d never find out about it (since by definition they’d be offline). Hence I need a secondary (external) network monitor.
Ideally it would measure for reachability (ICMP), performance, and reliability (whether the service is actually up and running).
You guys have any suggestions?
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January 25, 2006 at 4:28 pm
That’s a good question. I posted the same think here:
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I tried montastic which is a rails app, and I hit a bug right away. I’m not sure if I’d trust it for something mission critical.
If you find something, let us know.
January 25, 2006 at 9:25 pm
Kevin – I had a similar need for external monitoring years ago and signed up with Red Alert (www.redalert.com). They were bought out by Keynote, which offers some performance monitoring.
January 25, 2006 at 11:27 pm
For the DIY approach, I’d host Nagios and friends in a Xen virtual private server. I’ve used Rimuhosting both for VPS and for DNS hosting (like you do with zoneedit).
July 7, 2006 at 10:30 pm
I’ve sold ZoneEdit to Dotster. From what I’ve learned running ZE, I’m planning on building the “ZoneEdit of network monitoring”. I’m also very flattered. I’ll post to my weblog (RSS) when it’s ready. Probably a month or os.
July 19, 2006 at 6:07 pm
If you really need to monitor your network and record all the traffic especially VoIP calls and user session check solutions from Intelica Networks. It provides a true insight into network usage and traffic pattern.