* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> - Do i need to use another monitoring software? > >I depends on what you want to monitor and what your boss wants to see. > The essential things to monitor is switch, gateway ......
Bosses always appreciate - besides the uptime of your systems ;) - nifty graphs visualizing internet link usage or the like. I found cacti (www.cacti.net) to do a very good job at that. Most of the time you don't know whats going on on your systems or your network in terms of utilization. Cacti brings total transparancy to that and supports you in long term capacity planning and retrospective troubleshooting. It does not do alerting (like nagios), but does a perfect job at graphing measuring data (cpu load, memory / harddisk usage, link usage, ...). So it's a complement to nagios i consider worth using. > >Every 10 seconds can put a lot of load on your network connections > >especially if you monitor a lot of services and servers. I would > >certainly not do that for most of the servers/services. > So i will set a fast monitoring only for things like cpu load. Do you think it is really necessary to monitor cpu load every 10 seconds? I don't. We check it at about every 5 minutes. Rather use tresholds to do a more frequent checking when you get in the range of a possible overusage. So normally check every 5 minutes but when you get to a repeated 5-min load of 1 (for a 1 cpu system), do a more frequent checking. It is a lot about figuring out whats the best procedure for you specific environment, but i definitly would not trigger a check every 10 seconds. - sebastian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]