[BLUG] Server monitoring tools

[Joe Auty]

It kind of seems that all of this is a matter of need and design more so
than there being legitimate debate over there being a clear cut dominant
tool. Comparing Nagios to Zenoss seems like an apples vs. oranges
comparison - namely comparing a tool vs. a turnkey application.

If you want to, for instance, not have your monitoring software bother
you during maintenance windows, or require x number of failures prior to
notification, or setup ACLs for various people to see various things, or
integrate your graphing stuff, and don't want to invest a whole lot of
time into building these pieces yourself, a turnkey style application
such as Zenoss is probably better suited for your purposes.


Lord Drachenblut wrote:
> Just to drop a name that I haven't used personally. Opennms
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Mar 10, 2010, at 10:15 PM, Steven Black <yam655 at gmail.com
> <mailto:yam655 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>> I've used Nagios, though not the current version. I'm currently
>> migrating to Zenoss as it does a lot more. (Especially with some
>> tweaks.)
>>
>> I like Python, though, so mucking around with Python to extend it is
>> something I sort of enjoy. My setup displays all the installed
>> packages, as well as the more typical system info.
>>
>>> On Mar 10, 2010 6:49 PM, "Kirk Gleason" <kgleason at gmail.com
>>> <mailto:kgleason at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>> All,
>>>  Recently I went to a demo from a vendor about server / service
>>> monitoring. One of the presenters kept telling us how "sexy" it all
>>> was. I do have to admit that you can do some cool stuff with WMI and
>>> server monitoring. Of course once they were asked about providing the
>>> same stuff for non-Windows servers, the crowd was presented with the
>>> blank stare and babbling response that no sales person ever wants to
>>> give.
>>>  However this presentation got me thinking. What is out there? I am
>>> currently using a Nagios install for availability monitoring and Cacti
>>> for historical performance graphing. I do like what I can get from the
>>> NSclient++ and WMI monitoring on the windows machines, but the same
>>> type of functionality for linux always seem kludgy and clunky to me.
>>> Maybe it is me. I don't really have any specific example (I am at
>>> basketball practice for one of my kids as I type this), but it seems
>>> like I should be able to get more.
>>>  I've tried Groundwork Open Source and Zenoss in addition to Nagios
>>> with various combinations of Cacti and/or mrtg. I always seem to come
>>> back to Nagios, and I always seem to start immediately looking for
>>> something else.
>>>  Which brings me to my question: is anyone doing any type of
>>> monitoring / graphing out there? If so, what tools are you using?  How
>>> would you rate your current solution to other things you have tried?
>>>
>>> --
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>>>
>>> Kirk Gleason
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