Re: Network system monitoring tools? Nagios, Zabbix, ...?
On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 2:10 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com wrote: Looking to set up some system for monitoring systems on the network at work; _vaguely_ familiar with nagios and zabbix What do you guys generally find preferable, and why? Nagios? Zabbix? Something else? Last I knew, Nagios didn't scale well, but they were working on it. Since getting into OpenNMS http://www.opennms.org/, I have not wanted for anything else. Fairly easy to setup and configure for basic SNMP monitoring, very mature and stable, decent docs, highly scale-able, commercial support if you want it, consistent (though complex) configuration files for the more advanced tweaks and add-ons, healthly plug-in set, etc. etc. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Network system monitoring tools? Nagios, Zabbix, ...?
I echo that most tools don't do all things well, and the biggest thing is to figure out what datapoints you want to trend/alert on instead of getting caught up on tool selection. In general, once you know what you're actually trying to alert on, the tool selection gets really simple. I use the following. * Check_MK for traditional infrastructure both server and switch. It's a nagios derivative. easy to test out using OMD. It also has a real reasonable support contract system. * Boundary for cloud network monitoring (10 free nodes, go play with it, you'll be happy). * Logstash + Kibana + Graphite/statsd + Graphana for anything cloud based. I've been playing with packet beat a bit too, which is a boundary work a like that backs into elastic search. Pretty nice stack if you already have an elastic search cluster for logstash. On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 8:40 AM, Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name wrote: 1) Most of the all in one things don't do all the things well. 2) Nagios and derivatives do alerting very well. It's usually the right choice for that part. 3) Nagios doesn't do time based monitoring/graphing well. Most of it is monitoring itself. 4) There are lots of monitoring tools. I've used Cacti, Zabbix, MRTG, BigBrother, munin. Find one that monitors what you want monitoring. 5) If you don't pool too often/install too many agents on the clients, you might want a combo. 6) Setup a central syslog server comb through that too (this is one of the combo things). I've used swatch to do a continuous tail -f | filter in a previous job that worked well but took awhile to setup. I'd love to hear about other tools. I've heard of splunk ($), logstash, loggly. On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 2:10 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com wrote: Looking to set up some system for monitoring systems on the network at work; _vaguely_ familiar with nagios and zabbix What do you guys generally find preferable, and why? Nagios? Zabbix? Something else? -- 'tis an ill wind that blows no minds. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ -- * Patrick **Flaherty *| * w:* 978 983 6597 *e:* patrick.flahe...@weather.com ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Network system monitoring tools? Nagios, Zabbix, ...?
1) Most of the all in one things don't do all the things well. 2) Nagios and derivatives do alerting very well. It's usually the right choice for that part. 3) Nagios doesn't do time based monitoring/graphing well. Most of it is monitoring itself. 4) There are lots of monitoring tools. I've used Cacti, Zabbix, MRTG, BigBrother, munin. Find one that monitors what you want monitoring. 5) If you don't pool too often/install too many agents on the clients, you might want a combo. 6) Setup a central syslog server comb through that too (this is one of the combo things). I've used swatch to do a continuous tail -f | filter in a previous job that worked well but took awhile to setup. I'd love to hear about other tools. I've heard of splunk ($), logstash, loggly. On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 2:10 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com wrote: Looking to set up some system for monitoring systems on the network at work; _vaguely_ familiar with nagios and zabbix What do you guys generally find preferable, and why? Nagios? Zabbix? Something else? -- 'tis an ill wind that blows no minds. ___ 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/
Network system monitoring tools? Nagios, Zabbix, ...?
Looking to set up some system for monitoring systems on the network at work; _vaguely_ familiar with nagios and zabbix What do you guys generally find preferable, and why? Nagios? Zabbix? Something else? -- 'tis an ill wind that blows no minds. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Network system monitoring tools? Nagios, Zabbix, ...?
I'm generally a fan of nagios... but PandoraFMS is showing potential, especially where execs want pretty pictures. Brian Chabot On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 2:10 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com wrote: Looking to set up some system for monitoring systems on the network at work; _vaguely_ familiar with nagios and zabbix What do you guys generally find preferable, and why? Nagios? Zabbix? Something else? -- 'tis an ill wind that blows no minds. ___ 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/
Re: Network system monitoring tools? Nagios, Zabbix, ...?
On 2014-08-13, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com sent: Looking to set up some system for monitoring systems on the network at work; _vaguely_ familiar with nagios and zabbix What do you guys generally find preferable, and why? Nagios? Zabbix? Something else? Icinga is worth looking at if you're used to Nagios. For things that would have traditionally been monitored with MRTG or Cacti, I'd recommend taking a look at Observium. If you're more into a roll your own thing, collectd + Graphite + grafana makes some nice looking graphs. -- Chip Marshall c...@2bithacker.net http://2bithacker.net/ pgp2bBfpPTgd6.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
