Monitoring Client for Linux Overview

Installation Instructions are available within your dashboard.

The following services are monitored:

Apache

• Reports error logs for enabled websites.

Beacon Downtime Reporting

• Reports when a computer goes offline for a subscriber selectable time period of 2-30 minutes.

Crashplan Client

• Alerts if a Crashplan Client isn't backing up on schedule

CrashPlan Server

• Reports the status of daily database dumps
• Monitors availability of the PROe Server

Fail2Ban

• Reports actions taken by Fail2Ban

Failed Logins

• Reports the amount of failed logins to the server
• Warns if a users failed login attempts exceeds a specified value (adjustable. Default: User_Threshold=10)
• Warns if the total amount of failed login attempts exceeds a specified value (adjustable. Default: Total_Threshold=20)

Frameworks

• Reports Shellshock vulnerability

Kerio Connect

• Service configuration and availability
• Calculates disk usage on a per-domain basis.
• Calculates disk usage for key folders - mail, backups, archives, full text search.
• Notifies of pending license expirations.

MySQL

• Reports error logs for MySQL.

Network Status

• Reports send and receive errors on network interfaces
• Warns (by default, optional) when the amount of new errors passes a certain amount (adjustable. Default: ErrThreshold=0).

RAM

• Reports amount of total and available physical and swap memory.
• Warns (by default, optional) if the amount of memory changes.

Reboot Notification

• Reports the last reboot time of the machine.
• Warns (optional, off by default) if the machine has been rebooted.

Volume Capacity  Presence

• Reports if the root volume fills to 90% (default) capacity.
• Optionally configure the monitoring of additional volumes.

The main configuration file is client_settings.conf and is located

/etc/monitoringclient/client_settings.conf

Plugins will create settings files as-needed in the plugin-support folder

/etc/monitoringclient/plugin-support/