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Thoughts needed on new uptime project
Okay so I bought vpsupti.me and want to have a monitoring platform. I first want to develop it for my clients and then release it to the public.
Not wanting to invade on any of my clients privacy and allowing them to make the decision themselves. I want to give them a monitoring system that they will have to install.
The question is ssh or ftp? I want to use a system that doesn't use a webserver what are your suggestions.
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SSH
Well my only concern is security. Not that I am worried about it getting hacked but my thought is incase someone was to for who knows what reason use thier root username and password that it could be bad. And ftp would shrink that problem.
Any other Idea's on how to do it with out a webserver?
Have the installed system create a user that is used to send data via ssh to the remote monitoring system.
FTP? You mean people having to install an FTP server on their servers?
Good thought!!
more of them ftping to my server and uploading the xml every so often.
Don't use FTP, it's evil.
Just set up a simple API on your own webserver that the monitoring daemon can report to. Hell, you could even run a custom persistent daemon to do so.
Why not use snmp? It's meant specifically for what you are looking for.
I think I may be going overboard. When I think about it all the other information is available via the regular control panel. Maybe I will just make it and uptime monitor.