Re: [CentOS] Monitoring services

2011-12-17 Thread Les Mikesell
On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote: Do Zabbix or Zenoss allow for this sort of testing that Nagios has? >> OK, thanks.  I'll dig more into passive checks >> > > I think its the active tests you are looking for ( tests run from the > zabbix-server rather than on the agent

Re: [CentOS] Monitoring services

2011-12-17 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 12/17/2011 01:25 PM, Alan McKay wrote: >>> Do Zabbix or Zenoss allow for this sort of testing that Nagios has? > OK, thanks. I'll dig more into passive checks > I think its the active tests you are looking for ( tests run from the zabbix-server rather than on the agent ). Easy one to start wi

Re: [CentOS] Monitoring services

2011-12-17 Thread Alan McKay
> > Do Zabbix or Zenoss allow for this sort of testing that Nagios has? > > yes. > OK, thanks. I'll dig more into passive checks -- “Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV” - Michael Pollan, author of "In Defense of Food" ___ C

Re: [CentOS] Monitoring services

2011-12-17 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 12/16/2011 04:19 PM, Alan McKay wrote: > At the base of what I see so far, Zabbix is only able to monitor devices > that have the Zabbix agent on it - is that correct? not at all. Zabbix can do active and passive tests, it can even proxy them via relays and can aggregate results based on condit

Re: [CentOS] Monitoring services

2011-12-16 Thread Lucian
On 16 December 2011 16:19, Alan McKay wrote: > > But I'm still left wondering whether I should fall back to Nagios. If you're considering that then also have a look at Opsview: http://www.opsview.com/community/compare-opsview ___ CentOS mailing list Cen

Re: [CentOS] Monitoring services

2011-12-16 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 12:02 PM, Alan McKay wrote: >> > Thoughts form anyone on any of this? >> >> Network monitoring is not trivial no matter what tool you use.  Pick >> something that you trust to scale to the proportions you will need so >> you don't do a lot of work and then hit a wall.   And

Re: [CentOS] Monitoring services

2011-12-16 Thread Alan McKay
> > Thoughts form anyone on any of this? > > Network monitoring is not trivial no matter what tool you use. Pick > something that you trust to scale to the proportions you will need so > you don't do a lot of work and then hit a wall. And if you have a > lot of systems, avoid anything that needs

Re: [CentOS] Monitoring services

2011-12-16 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 10:19 AM, Alan McKay wrote: > > On the one hand I like having an agent on the remove device since it allows > you to have functionality that is more purpose-driven to what we are trying > to do.   On the other hand, what above devices that cannot run the agent? >  e.g. moni

Re: [CentOS] Monitoring services

2011-12-16 Thread Alan McKay
OK, I've had a Zabbix and a Zenoss server running now for 2 or 3 days and would like to morph this thread into a discussion of what each of these systems can and cannot do. At the base of what I see so far, Zabbix is only able to monitor devices that have the Zabbix agent on it - is that correct?

Re: [CentOS] Monitoring services

2011-12-13 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 12/13/2011 03:28 PM, Alan McKay wrote: > I am just trying out Zabbix and I have to say it sure is easy to set > up (once you get beyond a few minor quirks). I'm pretty impressed so > far with my evaluation. > I've use zabbix quite extensively over the last 2 odd years ( we even use Zabbix to

Re: [CentOS] Monitoring services

2011-12-13 Thread Alan McKay
I am just trying out Zabbix and I have to say it sure is easy to set up (once you get beyond a few minor quirks). I'm pretty impressed so far with my evaluation. -- “Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV”          - Michael Pollan, author of "In Defense of Food" _

Re: [CentOS] Monitoring services

2011-11-29 Thread Jon Detert
ssage - > From: m...@tdiehl.org > To: "CentOS mailing list" > Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2011 9:53:54 AM > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Monitoring services > > On Tue, 29 Nov 2011, Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote: > > > Greetings, > > > > On Tue, Nov 29, 2

Re: [CentOS] Monitoring services

2011-11-29 Thread me
On Tue, 29 Nov 2011, Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote: > Greetings, > > On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 12:05 AM, Paul Heinlein wrote: >> On Sun, 27 Nov 2011, Kenneth Porter wrote: >> >>> What's available to remotely monitor services? > > I have deployed Zabbix successfully to remotely monitor about 240+ > ge

Re: [CentOS] Monitoring services

2011-11-29 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 12:05 AM, Paul Heinlein wrote: > On Sun, 27 Nov 2011, Kenneth Porter wrote: > >> What's available to remotely monitor services? I have deployed Zabbix successfully to remotely monitor about 240+ geographically distributed locations connected by ADSSL links (IOW

Re: [CentOS] Monitoring services

2011-11-28 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Sun, 27 Nov 2011, Kenneth Porter wrote: > What's available to remotely monitor services? What I'd like is > something that can run scripts for each service to connect to a port > and verify that it's up, and then send me an SMS message (phone > text) to let me know which, if any, are down.

Re: [CentOS] Monitoring services

2011-11-28 Thread Les Mikesell
On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 5:01 PM, Kenneth Porter wrote: > What's available to remotely monitor services? What I'd like is something > that can run scripts for each service to connect to a port and verify that > it's up, and then send me an SMS message (phone text) to let me know which, > if any, ar

Re: [CentOS] Monitoring services

2011-11-28 Thread Roberto Alvarado
You can try zabbix www.zabbix.com On 11/27/2011 08:01 PM, Kenneth Porter wrote: > What's available to remotely monitor services? What I'd like is something > that can run scripts for each service to connect to a port and verify that > it's up, and then send me an SMS message (phone text) to let m

Re: [CentOS] Monitoring services

2011-11-27 Thread Yu Watanabe
>Nagios is probably the most popular, and is pretty powerful and >relatively easy to write your own plugins for. > >I have to look at this in my new job in the next month or so. I'm >going to have a look at Zenoss and if that does not pan out and >nothing else turns up I'll fall back to Nagios. >

Re: [CentOS] Monitoring services

2011-11-27 Thread Craig White
On Sun, 2011-11-27 at 20:56 -0500, Alan McKay wrote: > Nagios is probably the most popular, and is pretty powerful and > relatively easy to write your own plugins for. > > I have to look at this in my new job in the next month or so. I'm > going to have a look at Zenoss and if that does not pan o

Re: [CentOS] Monitoring services

2011-11-27 Thread Alan McKay
Nagios is probably the most popular, and is pretty powerful and relatively easy to write your own plugins for. I have to look at this in my new job in the next month or so. I'm going to have a look at Zenoss and if that does not pan out and nothing else turns up I'll fall back to Nagios. Really

Re: [CentOS] Monitoring services

2011-11-27 Thread John Broome
On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 18:01, Kenneth Porter wrote: > What's available to remotely monitor services? What I'd like is something > that can run scripts for each service to connect to a port and verify that > it's up, and then send me an SMS message (phone text) to let me know which, > if any, are

Re: [CentOS] Monitoring services

2011-11-27 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Sunday, November 27, 2011 4:22 PM -0700 Corey Henderson wrote: > None that I'm aware of. If you're going to write one, keep in mind that > some init scripts list as "on" in chkconfig and run on boot but don't > actually launch a process. True. I was thinking that a script could run "chkcon

Re: [CentOS] Monitoring services

2011-11-27 Thread Corey Henderson
On 11/27/2011 4:01 PM, Kenneth Porter wrote: > What's available to remotely monitor services? What I'd like is something > that can run scripts for each service to connect to a port and verify that > it's up, and then send me an SMS message (phone text) to let me know which, > if any, are down. >

[CentOS] Monitoring services

2011-11-27 Thread Kenneth Porter
What's available to remotely monitor services? What I'd like is something that can run scripts for each service to connect to a port and verify that it's up, and then send me an SMS message (phone text) to let me know which, if any, are down. Also, does a script exist that checks all the servic