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Witch tools when you have many VPS? And monitoring them
« on: June 30, 2012, 10:01:52 am »
Hi, I have about 4 VPSs, on different locations, and I'm looking for a tool to manage them (connect more easely to them), exchange files between them, check their status, ect

Si there a such website or software?

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Re: Witch tools when you have many VPS? And monitoring them
« Reply #1 on: June 30, 2012, 11:23:35 am »
Dropbox to exchange files

pingdom.com to monitor and get alerts when they go down. Basic plan is free

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Re: Witch tools when you have many VPS? And monitoring them
« Reply #2 on: June 30, 2012, 12:21:36 pm »
Panopta - SMS monitoring with detailed uptime stats, an alternative is Pingdom - comes down to personal preference as they are both exceptional at what they do!

For monitoring the health of a VPS (cpu, hdd, ram etc), we provide users these via our control portal, graphing is based on a custom rrdtool setup - highly recommended, tricky to set up but works well for us.

Exchanging files - on a small scale, dropbox? Or have a storage box that you can use to mount drives from onto your VPS.
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Re: Witch tools when you have many VPS? And monitoring them
« Reply #3 on: July 01, 2012, 04:24:31 pm »
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dropbox + pingdom is perfect and all free. you don't need anything more.
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Re: Witch tools when you have many VPS? And monitoring them
« Reply #4 on: July 01, 2012, 04:37:21 pm »
@Pips2Cash:  it's an interesting free Service.

tested it ~1 1/2 years ago.

But anyway please be aware that once Pingdom is alerting that the VPS is down - means nothing. Because it's trying to communicate through several routes from different Sources in the world. and that's not a 1to1 monitoring *g*. theire are several amount of Hops between Source+Destination.

So means that pingdom alerting a Downtime - but i's not down - only a router or something else has problems in the middle.

But maybe theire where some big changes in the meaningtime? ;)

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« Last Edit: July 01, 2012, 04:39:12 pm by Max_001 »

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Re: Witch tools when you have many VPS? And monitoring them
« Reply #5 on: July 01, 2012, 05:00:06 pm »
Max, you're right. Nothing changed. You measure the route, not directly your VPS status. Also the VPS provider can block pings.

To prevent false alerts i set the intervall on a higher timeframe.

Overall it's better than nothing. Best is to pay for a monitoring service of the hoster.
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Re: Witch tools when you have many VPS? And monitoring them
« Reply #6 on: July 02, 2012, 12:19:56 pm »
If you want a monitor tool that notify you about services downtime from one or more server, i would suggest nagios.

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Re: Witch tools when you have many VPS? And monitoring them
« Reply #7 on: July 02, 2012, 03:52:22 pm »
dropbox + pingdom is perfect and all free. you don't need anything more.

Depends on what you define as 'monitoring'. If your monitoring is simply to make sure your VPS is up, then something like Pingdom/Panopta is fine - but this is only uptime monitoring, nothing more.

For checking statuses across a range of VPS, rrdtool will give you something like the screenshot I've attached. A central overview of all the critical components when monitoring your VPS - no need to launch a load of task managers across all VPS. Add a web interface, and away you go :)
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Re: Witch tools when you have many VPS? And monitoring them
« Reply #8 on: July 02, 2012, 05:48:56 pm »
you forgot to mention: it's open source  ;)
nice tool! think i will test it. tnx
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Re: Witch tools when you have many VPS? And monitoring them
« Reply #9 on: July 02, 2012, 06:08:06 pm »
you forgot to mention: it's open source  ;)
nice tool! think i will test it. tnx

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