[olug] Open source monitoring system?

[Craig Wolf]

I will add my name to the mix for Nagios as well.  I started with Nagios 2 that was a nightmare!  I was using fruity to do my config changes until fruity got corrupted, which in turn caused problems with Nagios.  Since they have gone to Nagios 3, it has been WORLDS better.  I know that you can use Lilac to manage it if you want to BUT I have chosen to live in the config files and just document how to deploy to each platform and setup the filesystem for separate areas by platform and that has made the management of this MUCH easier!

The nice thing with Nagios is I can work on it as I have time.  The config files are pretty straight forward and easy to manage.  A reference book is a great addition to making things nicer.  

I will be in the same boat as Brian soon in that I am doing 50 servers now with 423 services and I am no more than 1/2 way on the servers, I still need the routers which puts me at less than 1/3 of the hosts I will be monitoring.




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>>> Brian Roberson <roberson at olug.org> 4/16/2009 >>>
I'd have to through my vote in for Nagios as well, I cant even begin to tell
you all the cool things I have done with it over the years. php/perl
frontends to automate configurations, plug-in's to monitor obscure stuff,
like the output of raid controller command line utilities (on a windows box,
none the least) to tell me raw hardware raid status, checking dates on virus
definitions, looking at log files.... highly extensible and usable. I would
have to say the only pitfall I found with it, and it was more of a
deployment issue than a real problem, was at what point you make the system
distributed, and how you do this. At one point in a previous life, I had
nagios checking over 500 hosts and 3000 services on those hosts, that was a
bit too much for a single box (at least the box I was running).





On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 7:33 AM, Jay Hannah <jay at jays.net> wrote:

> On Apr 15, 2009, at 4:33 PM, Jay Hannah wrote:
> > If you were going to start over today what open source monitoring
> > system would you install to watch your servers / disk / processes /
> > etc and do paging / email notifications, and escalation?
>
> Thanks all! Results so far:
>
>    http://jays.net/wiki/Monitoring_tools 
>
> j
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