Hi Atom;
I've used a lot of the products already mentioned and they all have
their ups and downs. All of them do.
I have had good success in smaller implementations using jffnms
(http://jffnms.sourceforge.net/). It's very much like cacti but has a
lot of the features already built, it's got a lot of the things cacti
needs templates for, and it can be extended with custom php pollers.
jff uses a mysql or pgsql backend natively. It also has some good
features around building maps and zones and even lets you manage
customers, accounts per customer, custom views per account/customer and
an event driven system that lets you customize where alerts are sent by
zone, client, account etc. It can also export reports to excel which
can be useful for trending/pivot tables.
It also does neat things like autodiscovery and alerting when now ports
pop up without notice (for rootkits etc); monitoring of individual
process thread and memory useage; apache server-status and url substring
matches; scanning of entire networks for population of hosts; interface
interdependency. You get the picture. The host and interface
management is a breeze and the initial effort to get hosts graphing is
low. The server/interface status summary page is very very ugly. I
would not consider it good for a large environment due to the overhead
of the php pollers running every 5 minutes, ymmv.
The downside is that Javier seems to have stopped development on it in
2006. I did post a question to the mail list last week and someone
responded which is always nice. The package is pretty complete as is
but there is still room for development (satellite servers would be nice
and the base code is there but not working afaik).
It's available from the debian repositories, from dag for redhat
variants or good old tgz from sourceforge.
Good luck!
Brad
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?
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