Atom Powers wrote: > I have a relatively small shop, about 30 servers in three locations, > and I need help finding a service monitor that can notify me when > something is amis, or about to go badly. Specifically I am looking for > a product that can send alerts when a service fails a check and keep > metrics for all the servers that it monitors. > > I've tried several products, and none really do what I want. (I prefer > OpenSource, but it's not a requirement. Running on *BSD/Linux *is*.) > Nagios is good for alerting, but it's doesn't keep metrics. > Cacti is good at keeping metrics, but it won't alert me if something > is wrong. > ZenOss does both, but I have found it difficult to manage and buggy, > and the commercial version is expensive. > > Can you recommend or mention some other products that you have used or > heard about?
Just for the record, Nagios *can* keep metrics, but you generally need an add-on such as nagiosgraph or nagvis to display them. There is/was a cacti integration floating around, but I haven't looked at it in some time. You might want to take a look at Opsview (opsera.com). It's a layer on top of Nagios that provides a configuration management system as well as graphing, mrtg, and nmis integration. I have been looking at it as a potential replacement for our current system and have been happy with what I see so far. -- Dan Rich <[email protected]> | http://www.employees.org/~drich/ | "Step up to red alert!" "Are you sure, sir? | It means changing the bulb in the sign..." | - Red Dwarf (BBC)
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