System/Network monitoring.

Post #295,385 by crazy 10/30/07 10:57:32 AM Reply	System/Network monitoring. Looking for system/network monitoring suggestion. Have a bit of experience with Nagios - was very complex and I didn't like it. But when I had my admin do it all, I loved it. I'm looking from the viewpoint of a single central box, so I'd run the monitoring on that box to make sure routing and network connectivity are good. Here's what I need to watch: SMB mounted file systems. NFS mounted file systems. Space utilization on all file systems. Outbound email access. Yeah, catch 22 on notification when that one fails unless I setup a dialer. Network based printer communications. MS SQL/Server connectivity. DNS server access. Variety of end-point system access to check for routing working. This will be installed on my primary Ubuntu server. Do I bite the bullet and grab Nagois, or is there any alternatives I should be looking at?
Post #295,386 by boxley 10/30/07 11:05:56 AM Reply	big brother, mrtg Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari? Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free american and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 51 years. meep reach me at [link\|mailto:bill.oxley@cox.net\|mailto:bill.oxley@cox.net]
Post #295,417 by crazy 10/30/07 10:18:00 PM Reply	I ended up with Nagios Devil I know.
Post #295,458 by folkert 10/31/07 7:06:34 PM Reply	At least LOOK at ZenOSS Its got a nice front end and it seems to be well built and it also can use ANY nagios plugin you install. [link\|http://www.zenoss.com/download/links\|http://www.zenoss.com/download/links] The Virtual Appliance actually WORKS. I tested it a bit ago, locally, but not time to play right now. Nagios works, its just a PITA to configure. Defining hosts, so that DNS can fail and everything still works. Using naming conventions to keep the names short on pages to phones. I know, 1200 services monitored (adding 300 this week or so), 300 interfaces to keep track of, some are additional IPs on interfaces... but I still gotta whack them every three minutes. Plus twigging router with SNMPD, Hosts with SNMPD, out of order checking on SNMPGET SUCKS and is tough to track down. -- [link\|mailto:greg@gregfolkert.net\|greg], [link\|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry\|REMEMBER ED CURRY!] @ *i_wethey* `PGP key: 1024D/B524687C 2003-08-05 Fingerprint: E1D3 E3D7 5850 957E FED0 2B3A ED66 6971 B524 687C Alternate Fingerprint: 09F9 1102 9D74 E35B D841 56C5 6356 88C0 Alternate Fingerprint: 455F E104 22CA 29C4 933F 9505 2B79 2AB2`
Post #295,470 by crazy 10/31/07 10:36:21 PM Reply	Pretty I only have about (hmmm) 40 services that I'll be monitoring. I've got about 25 defined so far. Nagios will work. When reviewing Zenoss, I really don't like the concept of open source crippleware / bait and switch. You know, teaser version with X capability, paid with X+. [link\|http://www.zenoss.com/product/overview#subscriptions\|http://www.zenoss.co...iew#subscriptions] And that pricing is total bullshit. They start at $66 per managed resource per year. And then say: Min 50 resources.
Post #295,491 by folkert 11/1/07 5:17:35 PM Reply	Yeah, I know. I just say you owe it to yourself to review. Its built on a Zope Appserver, with lotsa stuffs underneath, plus anything nagios expands it to beyond what they would like... -- [link\|mailto:greg@gregfolkert.net\|greg], [link\|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry\|REMEMBER ED CURRY!] @ *i_wethey* `PGP key: 1024D/B524687C 2003-08-05 Fingerprint: E1D3 E3D7 5850 957E FED0 2B3A ED66 6971 B524 687C Alternate Fingerprint: 09F9 1102 9D74 E35B D841 56C5 6356 88C0 Alternate Fingerprint: 455F E104 22CA 29C4 933F 9505 2B79 2AB2`

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