Create server monitor tool

Hi,

I am looking for some ideas … I am interested in making a little tool, that will help with the monitoring of our servers, It would hold data on disk space, mails sent etc.

The idea being to have a little GUI on my desktop with bits that go red!

What I am wondering is, has anyone ideas on

1 . which language would it be easily implemented in (Java, C++, Lotus Script, C, VB, ???).

  1. has Notes or Domino and useful inbuilt calls/functions I could use.

  2. does anyone have any links to useful websites??

I think it may run seporate to Notes, but it is just as likely it could be created to run under domino/notes.

What I am trying to avoid is having to install anything new on the servers (my code included!)

Thanks loads for your time. Any help small or big would be VERY useful!

Subject: Try the built-in Server\Monitor tool in the Domino Administrator Client first…

Subject: Create server monitor tool

Jimmy,I have been working on a client-side server monitor. It is hosted at the OpenNTF.org site (see OpenNTF.org - Project snapshot: Chksrv) and it is written in C++.

At present it is a command line tool that uses a Lotus Notes database for configuration. It checks a server is up and can also monitor any numeric statistic put out by the server. For alerts it can run an agent or a .cmd script or both, so if you can write a script to turn something red or green it may help you.

I use it to watch mail.waiting and mail.dead stats for a number of servers.

One day I’ll get around to providing some sort of GUI interface - or maybe that is something you are up to!?

Regards, Ian

Subject: Create server monitor tool

Check out HP OpenView Internet Services port scann.