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toksta* server monitoring tool now open-source
Because we didn’t find a server monitoring tool, that fit all of our needs, our System Administrator Frank (think of him as Oliver Kahn for the world of System Administration) developed a Perl-based web-Interface for our platform. Of course we could have used several different tools to get the same functionality, but a single interface is just much more comfortable.
toksta* Server Monitoring (tsm) is designed for developers to keep an eye on the Servers and for System Administrators to see important logfiles, statistics and additional system information in one single interface.
As a special feature an interface for Subversion is implemented, so we can do checkouts from our version control to all webservers in a single operation. All remote operations on the servers are done by commands via SSH, so we can implement each command execution on our servers with only some short lines of Perl. But it’s not only a webinterface: Additionally to that it contains a tool named ‘tsm_cron’ for running tasks on your servers like backing up directories and databases, generating performance graphs, checking MD5 sums of important files etc.
Because this tool may be useful for other platforms with replicated MySQL databases and multiple webservers and some code snippets also may be useful for usage in modules for Nagios, we released this tool as an open-source software. Informations about the project and a download of the first alpha- release is available at Sourceforge.net.
At the moment the following features are implemented:
- monitoring of MySQL replication
- MySQL process lists and settings
- process monitoring with Monit
- file alteration monitoring
- logviewer for different logs like webserver logfiles, backup logs etc.
- performance monitoring graphs
- Subversion checkout interface for checkouts to multiple servers
- Memcache monitoring
We plan to implement additional functions like:
- user management to allow users access to specific modules
- service restarts on all servers
- terminal for shell access
- monitoring of running processes on servers
- Subversion checkouts for single files
- adding, modifying and deleting virtual hosts on webservers
- runtime changing of MySQL settings
- firewall interface (adding and deleting rules etc)
- adding, modifying and deleting cronjobs
- restart of entire replicated MySQL system
The development status is still alpha, but feature requests and help on development are very welcome! A documentation for implementing toksta* Server Monitoring into your platform is coming with our next release.
If you like the software please send your Feedback directly to Frank or leave comment and support toksta by spreading the word!
sportme.de uses toksta
The German community for athletes, clubs and sport fans www.sportme.de uses toksta since a couple of days. Good to have you on board guys!
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Youniverse.com uses toksta
Every day, Youniverse helps 1000s of people discover their VisualDNA, compare quiz results with friends, chat, form Youniverse groups and get connected in a whole new way…
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Youniverse
toksta nominated for best business idea 2008!
We got great news this Friday: toksta has been nominated for the INTERNET WORLD Business-Idee of the year!
The winner will be announced on October 21st. You can vote until October 3rd, so please support us and vote for us >>> HERE <<<
Congratulation to the other startups that have been nominated:
- addcontents
- adsclae
- brands4friends
- coliquio
- doodle.ch
- groops.de
- guut.de
- imedo.de
- jobleads
- kissnofrog
- make.tv
- mamiweb.de
- mikestar.com
- misterspex
- sharewise
- sones GmbH
- verwandt.de
- Young Internet
A special note for our german speaking readers: Unfortunately the description of toksta has quite some mistakes in it. Even though I had a long phone call and sent all the information I could, customer and competitor names have been spelled wrong (deine-tierwelt.de not meine Tierwelt, Nimbuzz not Nimbus), the description of our service sounds rather strange, we are not going to release 10 language versions (see blog post below) etc, etc.
When I read the description I immediately contacted the responsible agency but the text has already been printed. 
The ageny promised though to at least correct the mistakes in the online version…So let’s hope they get everything right now…
