BigDaddy is a software that helps businesses monitor their servers and applications, ensuring that everything is functioning properly. It is designed to keep track of server resources, uptime, and system performance, enabling proactive management and problem detection.
BigDaddy is a powerful open source application designed to monitor servers and applications in a business environment. Created by BioWare Corp. in 2002 to monitor various servers and applications, it has now been released to the Open Source Community in the hope that it will be useful. This project is an open source application released by BioWare Corp. under the BSD License.
One of the key features of BigDaddy is its server monitoring capabilities. The application allows you to monitor servers, port checkers, SNMP, and anything that can be externally monitored. The easy-to-use web-based administration tool allows you to delay or disable monitoring globally or on a per server/monitoring module basis.
BigDaddy also has the ability to monitor groups of server modules, warning you if a certain percentage of your web servers are failing. You can even add new custom monitoring modules in any language. The application provides graphs of monitoring module history, with the ability to use Plotkit (Javascript Graphing) or JPGraph with a license.
The notification escalation feature is another great aspect of BigDaddy. There are five levels of notification escalation when errors occur, with customizable escalation levels and the ability to assign modules to specific escalation levels. This feature ensures that any issues with your servers and applications are quickly dealt with.
The application also allows you to monitor and control Cron or Scheduled Tasks from a control panel, with the ability to delay or disable monitoring globally, per Cron application, or per category of Cron applications. You can prevent duplicate crons from running and view currently running applications across all servers. The feature to set and view log entries and view run history for any application is also available.
Other miscellaneous features of BigDaddy include the ability to file incident reports and view them in a timeline or by server, the ability to run clustered using MySQL Cluster with code to failover, user and group security, and a timeline of actions performed to servers and Cron applications.
BigDaddy is written in PERL and PHP with a MySQL database and runs on a Linux/Apache system. You can use any language, including VB Script, Java, and C, to communicate with the Web API for running scheduled/Cron applications on Linux, MacOSX, or Windows. Overall, BigDaddy is a highly recommended application for anyone who wants to monitor their servers and applications efficiently and seamlessly.
One of the key features of BigDaddy is its server monitoring capabilities. The application allows you to monitor servers, port checkers, SNMP, and anything that can be externally monitored. The easy-to-use web-based administration tool allows you to delay or disable monitoring globally or on a per server/monitoring module basis.
BigDaddy also has the ability to monitor groups of server modules, warning you if a certain percentage of your web servers are failing. You can even add new custom monitoring modules in any language. The application provides graphs of monitoring module history, with the ability to use Plotkit (Javascript Graphing) or JPGraph with a license.
The notification escalation feature is another great aspect of BigDaddy. There are five levels of notification escalation when errors occur, with customizable escalation levels and the ability to assign modules to specific escalation levels. This feature ensures that any issues with your servers and applications are quickly dealt with.
The application also allows you to monitor and control Cron or Scheduled Tasks from a control panel, with the ability to delay or disable monitoring globally, per Cron application, or per category of Cron applications. You can prevent duplicate crons from running and view currently running applications across all servers. The feature to set and view log entries and view run history for any application is also available.
Other miscellaneous features of BigDaddy include the ability to file incident reports and view them in a timeline or by server, the ability to run clustered using MySQL Cluster with code to failover, user and group security, and a timeline of actions performed to servers and Cron applications.
BigDaddy is written in PERL and PHP with a MySQL database and runs on a Linux/Apache system. You can use any language, including VB Script, Java, and C, to communicate with the Web API for running scheduled/Cron applications on Linux, MacOSX, or Windows. Overall, BigDaddy is a highly recommended application for anyone who wants to monitor their servers and applications efficiently and seamlessly.
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