Re: Network/System Monitors

2009-08-21 Thread Brian Chabot
Alan Johnson wrote: On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 4:23 PM, Lloyd Kvam pyt...@venix.com mailto:pyt...@venix.com wrote: http://www.intermapper.com is a local product that is worth considering. I looked at Internapper years ago when I was running a Wireless ISP and it looks very nice

Re: Network/System Monitors

2009-08-21 Thread Cole Tuininga
Are there no Zenoss fans around here? I use Nagios myself, but thought Zenoss looked pretty nice and was thinking about giving it a try... -- Cole Tuininga Lead Developer co...@code-energy.com ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list

Re: Network/System Monitors

2009-08-21 Thread Tom Buskey
a single data collector. Does anyone have any experience with network/system monitors that combine the functionality of Nagios, Cacti, SFlow, etc.? We are looking into products from Solar Winds and ManageEngines right now, but I would like to hear from others what they think? I am open to OSS

Re: Network/System Monitors

2009-08-21 Thread Cole Tuininga
Tom Buskey wrote: Exposing the historical graphs to users is a good thing: they can see the effect of doubling the number of developers on a system. For historical system information and stats, I personally really like munin. Nice and easy to set up, generates pretty graphs, extremely

Re: Network/System Monitors

2009-08-21 Thread Chip Marshall
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. I've generally found Nagios to be very good for service

Re: Network/System Monitors

2009-08-21 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
The last couple posts have reflected my experience as well. I use Nagios for monitoring and alerting. I use Munin for graphing and visual representation of things. I'm currently upgrading from Nagios 2 to Nagios 3 and I admit I was kinda hoping that I'd see more features in Nagios that would

Re: Network/System Monitors

2009-08-21 Thread H. Kurth Bemis
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.

Re: Network/System Monitors

2009-08-21 Thread Alan Johnson
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Chip Marshall c...@2bithacker.net wrote: OpenNMS looks interesting to me, I think I'll have to try it out sometime when I get spare cycles... There is significant overhead in the initial OpenNMS setup, not unlike HP Open view, but not quite as bad because

Network/System Monitors

2009-08-20 Thread Kenny Lussier
Hi All, We are currently using Nagios for monitoring systems and some network gear. However, we have found that it is a little lacking in a few areas: Predictive threshold SFlow tracking Monitoring several sites from a single data collector. Does anyone have any experience with network/system

Re: Network/System Monitors

2009-08-20 Thread Lloyd Kvam
just needed an excuse to pull a book off the shelf. Let me know if the book is likely to be useful.) Does anyone have any experience with network/system monitors that combine the functionality of Nagios, Cacti, SFlow, etc.? We are looking into products from Solar Winds and ManageEngines right

Re: Network/System Monitors

2009-08-20 Thread H. Kurth Bemis
that it is a little lacking in a few areas: Predictive threshold SFlow tracking Monitoring several sites from a single data collector. Does anyone have any experience with network/system monitors that combine the functionality of Nagios, Cacti, SFlow, etc.? We are looking into products from Solar

Re: Network/System Monitors

2009-08-20 Thread Alan Johnson
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 4:23 PM, Lloyd Kvam pyt...@venix.com wrote: http://www.intermapper.com is a local product that is worth considering. I looked at Internapper years ago when I was running a Wireless ISP and it looks very nice at the time. Still, I also suggest you take a hard look at