It really depends on your application server configuration. Most people just uses SNMP for this purpose. Something like net-snmp installed in servers, then monitor the info via SNMP MIB polling.
Alex Matthew Huff wrote: > I think all of these comments are useful. but we are looking for NMS for > server/application monitoring, not snmp/dmi based polling. We will need a > system that runs custom scripts to monitor our servers (CPU, OS syslogs, > Windows Event logs, hardware, memory, etc) and our in-house applications > running on these servers (100+). Native agents for windows 2003, 2008, Linux > and Solaris (both Sparc and x86) with custom scripting is a minimum > requirements. There are a lot of good network router/switch solutions, but > we are looking for some that are more focused on server based management. We > used to use BMC patrol which was a very good system. We moved away from it > because it was extremely pricey per-node and BMC absolute rejection of > Solaris X86 as a supported platform (We went back and forth between Sun and > BMC regarding that for over a year). > > ---- > Matthew Huffㅤㅈㅔㄽㅤㅈㅔㄽㅤㅈㅔㄽ | One Manhattanville Rd > OTA Management LLC | Purchase, NY 10577 > http://www.ox.com | Phone: 914-460-4039 > aim: matthewbhuff | Fax:ㅤㅈㅔㄽ 914-460-4139 > > > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Will Clayton [mailto:wclay...@corenap.com] >> Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 12:58 PM >> To: nanog@nanog.org >> Subject: Re: Opensource or Low Cost NMS for Server Hardware / >> Application Monitoring >> >> Eric Gauthier wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> >>> >>>> As for server / application / random other stuff (like printers and >>>> ups's and IP camera and the like), Zenoss is great -- its clean, >>>> simple, fast(ish), easy and pretty -- the last one happens to be >>>> important for some folks (esp in the enterprise world...) >>>> >>>> >>> We've looked at ZenOSS but couldn't get it to model the network. >>> >From what we can tell, it couldn't handle the full routing table >>> on our core routers (there are six). If someone has successfully >>> done this, can you contact me off list? >>> >>> Eric :) >>> >> I like NMIS. Fast, scalable, flexible and really hackable. It doesn't >> take much time to get it up and running but selling others on it can be >> challenging. It works off of flat tab delimited text files making >> populating the node base pretty easy. There are plans for NMIS5 to use >> database connectivity for this which will be even more fun. There are >> external contributions that do everything from RANCID to Flash maps of >> your network. The home page is here: >> >> http://sins.com.au/nmis/ >> >> But has since moved to sourceforge: >> >> http://sourceforge.net/projects/nmis/files/ >> >> With the gang being here: >> >> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/nmis_users/ >> >> While not for everyone and not as popular or pretty as some of the >> others, it is a network monitoring system built by engineers for >> engineers. With a combination of SNMP data collection and ping/service >> tests, bandwidth utilization alerts, alert groups, thresholds etc. can >> be adjusted on a per-device basis and just a week of utilization can >> really help you identify points on the network that need to be cleaned >> up. >> >> I guess my favorite part is the ability to write device interface >> descriptions to trigger actions in the Perl script since that data is >> collected via SNMP. >> >> -- >> Will Clayton >> >> > >