[Aide] AIDE on server - AIDE on laptop

[Thomas Leveille]

On 3/5/07, Reiner Rusch <rusch at w3solutions.de> wrote:
> But on a server? Perhaps (I'm not sure) it would be interesting, to test even
> those things below /etc so I know that my server was restarted, which could
> be a hint....
>
> Could anyone give me some information about their conf-files and what you do,
> if aide finds differences? By now I take a sms-service to know the status
> (only an alarm) once a day.

AIDE is meant to verify files, in order to detect intrusions. What you
are looking for is a monitoring tool for your servers, which is a
different thing :

a few interesting links :
http://www.nagios.org/  < I personnaly use it to monitor +100 servers.
http://www.tildeslash.com/monit/
http://www.zabbix.com/
http://www.hyperic.com/
http://www.groundworkopensource.com/

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Thomas Leveille