Using SNMP to monitor status of remote hosts

[ben_wilson]

Hi team,

Relative linux novice here, and this is my first time posting. I'm looking for suggestions on the best way to implement a monitor for 3 windows servers running an important web application.

Basically I want a linux box to sit there and attempt to GET a webpage from each of the 3 windows boxes I'm every 1 second. If it fails X amount of times in Y minutes I want it to send an SNMP trap to raise a critical alarm saying the host is down.

Basically I've got a working version of Net-SNMP on my RHEL box but from what I can see it doesn't have this function built-in. I note that MRTG works along similar lines but is more for monitoring traffic to a host rather than availability.

Does anyone know a common solution to this issue? Am I approaching it from the wrong angle? Any help will be very welcome!

Thanks in advance, Ben

[meton_magis]

I'd go with nagios, it is well documented, so you wont have to reinvent the wheel.