Pingdom Web site monitoring for 100% uptime. Measure your downtime.

Pingdom Web site monitoring for 100% uptime. Measure your downtime..

How it works

The Pingdom service monitors websites and servers from multiple locations on the Internet, making sure that they are working. You can use Pingdom to monitor both your public and password-protected websites, your FTP servers, your email servers, and any other kind of service that should be accessible from the Internet.

If your site stops working, Pingdom will alert you immediately. Like a watchdog.

I signed up for the free account that monitors a single server.  We’ll see how well this works.

Navicat – MySQL Overview

Navicat for MySQL is available for three platforms – Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. It connects users to any local/remote MySQL Server, providing several database utilities such as Data Modeling Tool, Data/Structure Synchronization, Import/Export, Backup and Report, to facilitate the process of maintaining data.

via Navicat – MySQL Overview – The Most Popular SQL Server management,

This product competes with the free MySQL Workstation.

cPanel Inc.

cPanel is the industry leader for turning standalone servers into a fully automated point-and-click hosting platform. Tedious tasks are replaced by web interfaces and API-based calls. cPanel is designed with multiple levels of administration including admin, reseller, end user, and email-based interfaces. These multiple levels provide security, ease of use, and flexibility for everyone from the server administrator to the email account user.

via cPanel Inc..

$475/license for a single server per year.

VMware KB: VMware VirtualCenter Server service does not start automatically after reboot

This issue may occur if the VirtualCenter Server service starts before one of the services it depends on is started. The VirtualCenter Server service is dependent on the following services: SQL Services ADAM Services when using linked mode in vCenter Server 4.x To resolve this issue, add a dependency to the VirtualCenter service so that it starts only after the necessary services have started.

via VMware KB: VMware VirtualCenter Server service does not start automatically after reboot.

Yikes!  You need to edit the registry to get this to work.

CloudStack, The Best Kept Secret in Cloud Computing

Cross Hypervisor Support

With CloudStack you can use multiple hypervisors, proprietary or open source (VMware, XenServer, Xen Cloud Platform, KVM or OracleVM). Not only can you use whatever hypervisor you want but also you can use multiple hypervisors in a highly available cloud computing instance.

via CloudStack, The Best Kept Secret in Cloud Computing – Head in the Clouds.

Virtual Machine Manager

The “Virtual Machine Manager” application (virt-manager for short package name) is a desktop user interface for managing virtual machines. It presents a summary view of running domains, their live performance & resource utilization statistics. The detailed view graphs performance & utilization over time. Wizards enable the creation of new domains, and configuration & adjustment of a domain’s resource allocation & virtual hardware. An embedded VNC client viewer presents a full graphical console to the guest domain

Via Virtual Machine Manager.