Central Monitoring Services of the RRZ

The monitoring team offers service monitoring and syslog services.

Monitoring allows us to check that servers and their services are functioning correctly.

We use Nagios monitoring software for service monitoring.

With Nagios, we can fulfill more demanding requirements, not only for UNIX systems, but also for Windows servers and other server operating systems, for example. In addition, Nagios can also send SMS notifications. Nagios is the industry standard for service monitoring.

Nagios sends email notifications and has a web interface.

As a supplement, we will offer syslog services, e.g., log files from different computers can be merged, or all SSH logins can be logged so that they cannot be manipulated in the event of a break-in. Reporting and analysis options for the log files will also be created. The syslog services are still under construction.

The monitoring team is a new group within Central Services. The goal is to offer a qualified and highly available monitoring service for the University of Hamburg. In the first step, we are only offering monitoring for the RRZ, but after our consolidation, we would like to offer the service for the entire university.




If you would like to contact us, you can use the email address: monitoring at rrz.uni-hamburg.de.