On Fri, 2009-08-21 at 14:30 -0400, Chip Marshall wrote: > On August 21, 2009, Tom Buskey sent me the following: > > Personally, I'd take a well tuned Nagios for alerts and > > something else for tracking historical data on graphs. I use > > swatch with multitail to watch logfiles on multiple systems.
Zabbix can monitor both EventLogs and Syslogs, as well as track and record log events, although I have ever used Zabbix in such a manner. > > I've generally found Nagios to be very good for service > monitoring and alerting, but scaling can be painful without some sort of > addon for config management. The distributed monitoring is available, > but feels kindof hacky to me. Zabbix supports service monitoring via several methods, including agent and agent-less options. > > Cacti is good for graphing SNMP data, but I find it to be a > major pain to get it to graph anything that it doesn't have > templates for, and crafting new templates tends to be headache > inducing for me. That could just be my incomplete understanding > of SNMP MIBs though. Zabbix give the ability to poll and SNMP capable device, then work with a specific element to produce historical graphs and reporting. Graphing is already built in, also the ability to zoom and examine historical data is nice. > > For general purpose graphing, I've been tending toward Munin. The > plugin API is very simple, so it's easy to write new ones in pretty much > any language you like. The UI isn't as polished as Cacti though. Zabbix US is PHP, and standalone. It can be place on another webserver, pointed at the SQL database and up and running. Not sure about > > OpenNMS looks interesting to me, I think I'll have to try it out > sometime when I get spare cycles... I tried OpenNMS, but eventually found that Zabbix was already mostly there for monitoring and reporting, much easier to configure and used technology I was already familiar with and comfortability using, like SNMP-WALK, perl, MySQL and PHP. http://www.zabbix.com http://www.zabbix.com/screenshots.php http://freshmeat.net/projects/zabbix ~k > > _______________________________________________ > gnhlug-discuss mailing list > gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
