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Questions tagged [alerts]

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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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Munin Disk Latency Alerts

I have setup my Munin server and alerts and have tested them aswell. I have set the alerts for disk usage as under: df._dev_mapper_centos_root.warning 90 df._dev_md126p2.warning 90 df._dev_md126p1.warning 90 df._dev_mapper_centos_home.warning 90 I…
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How can I test if an SSL is valid, hasn't expired, or been revoked?

Aside from receiving plenty of emails well in advanced from my PKI telling me one of my certificates is about to expire, how can I setup an alert that checks the health of an SSL? What I want to check for: Hasn't expired Hasn't been revoked Hasn't…
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Looking for a centrally managed instant messaging system

We have a small school with classrooms across a few buildings. There are currently no phones going into each room but each teacher does have a school laptop and Internet. We need a way to instantly communicate with teachers from the office or vice…
techguy
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Logstash, Kibana and email alerts

I am trying to setup email alerts using logstash. Right now it emails me EVERY time the pattern "Error" is parsed into my log file which can lead to a lot of unnecessary emails. I'd like to create a conditional rule so that let's say "X logfile has…
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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. Unfortunately this logs alerts as having been…
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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 service is in warning I want to send an alert once a…
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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 of the same monitoring features that send alerts…
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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. I have a company issue BlackBerry, so if a…
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aws billing alerts can not be disabled?

I have a free tier aws account, in Billing preferences. I see in the second option that once enabled cannot be disabled, Why? also there is a new budget. what's the difference to alerts?
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Reporting tools for auditd

I need to set up auditing in my environment, specifically file integrity monitoring. I've tried OSSEC, but found it cumbersome. I've since discovered auditd (already installed on my CentOS 6 system) and found it to be a simple but powerful…
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Monitoring E-Mail Alerts Scalably

Anyone know of a way to monitor e-mail alerts scalably? For many of my on site services I have them e-mail me on success (and failure) of critical tasks. The reason I have it e-mail on success, is sometimes the failure is of a nature that the…
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Is there a tool for Windows Server that can alert me when a connection is made over Remote Desktop?

Is there a tool for Windows Server 2008 that can alert me when a connection is made over Remote Desktop? I would like the alert via SMS, but email would also be fine. It seems like this tool must exist somewhere already, can anyone point me to…
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How best to monitor and alert on the absence of an event in the logs?

With logs getting captured in syslog-ng, I'd like to be able to automatically monitor the logs and receive an alert if NO log events appear that match a certain criteria. For instance, for a subscription-based website, if 6 hours elapse with no…
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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 it self. If you do close the alert you wont be…
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