If you have nagios on the server there's a plugin for notificcations and interaction using xmpp ( <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><a href="http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/~jobsanzl/publiccode/nagibot.html">http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/~jobsanzl/publiccode/nagibot.html</a> ) <div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 4:52 PM, Tapas Mishra <<a href="mailto:mightydreams@gmail.com">mightydreams@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> Hi all I am not sure as what should I be looking on Google hence asking here.I have a Ubuntu server with Public IP on which I have a few websites and SSH accounts.I want to know if there is any application/daemon which I can install so that when ever some one does an SSH connection to my server I get a pop up on my laptop that is like gtalk messages which just gives me some one pop up with a message that user so and so loged in to server.Or some other application which can also tell me when ever http requests are made to my server so that I can be aware or if some one tries a DOS (in this case requests might be difficult to detect) but I get a pop up which says that so and so services is trying to access your server from outside.Other than checking log files is there any way for these things which I asked? -- <a href="http://mightydreams.blogspot.com" target="_blank">http://mightydreams.blogspot.com</a> -- ubuntu-server mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-server@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-server@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server</a> More info: <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam" target="_blank">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam</a> </blockquote></div> -- -- "The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible." Sir Arthur C. Clarke