Meet Hong Kong Fuey, the world's greatest detective and agent behind FueyClient and the Fuey Dashboard.FueyClient is a Ruby gem that you can install on your servers to monitor what resources are
currently available to your server and which are not. FueyClient currently supports Pings, SNMPWalks and RFC Pings for those out there working with SAP.
Configuring FueyClient to inspect what resources are available is a matter of configuring a simple YAML file.
This configuration would ping "My DNS" and upon success would SNMPWalk to verify my VPN connection was available. If we wanted we could then go on to add another Ping to validate resources on the VPN network were available.
Currently the execution, success, and failure of each inspection is logged locally and sent to a Redis queue. Tools like PapertrailApp are great for looking through the FueyClient logs, but even better is the soon to be open sourced Fuey Dashboard that handles push notifications and shows realtime status on each of your inspections.
In the meantime, running FueyClient is easy. Just setup the config files and run it from the command line with the location of your config files passed as an argument. Even better, set it up as a cron job to run every 5 minutes! For more info on installation and configuration, check out the README.
At B2b2dot0 we value knowing that each of our clients servers can communicate with their required resources and we assembled Fuey just for that purpose! Hopefully Fuey can help you ensure your servers can communicate with their resources.
(Definitely expect an update in the next week or so when the Fuey dashboard is available!)
UPDATE: The Fuey Dashboard is now available for your consumption! Check it out!
