server

OK, this is driving me crazy.  ISPConfig is a great piece of software.  It can manage your web sites, and related services (such as DNS, FTP, mail, etc.) well, and it handles the config files with pretty good care, and it rarely breaks.  But, the installation experience is so twisted that I can't bear.  And if I would only have to tolerate this at fresh installs, then I'd just try to live with it, but facing the same old problems once more each time I try to update the installation is way beyond acceptable.

Server monitoring is something server admins put off until, well, it's too late.  Server admins have all experienced clients calling in to let them know that a service on their server is not working.  This can be unfortunate and embarrassing at the very least.  I thought I'd document a number of utilities I use to monitor Linux servers.