Re: [ilugd] Need some idea on monitoring softwares

2009-05-05 Thread Pratik Singh
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 4:53 AM, Smruti smrutiman...@gmail.com wrote: ... Thank you all for your valuable suggestions and comments. I need to test some of these products and may be I will post my findings about them once I reach on a conclusion. You could also try GroundWork Open Source:

Re: [ilugd] Need some idea on monitoring softwares

2009-05-04 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 4:53 AM, Smruti smrutiman...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.orgwrote: Nagios used to be a good way to do things, a few years back it was also recommended quite widely. But to be honest unless you have lots and lots of

Re: [ilugd] Need some idea on monitoring softwares

2009-05-03 Thread Smruti
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.orgwrote: Nagios used to be a good way to do things, a few years back it was also recommended quite widely. But to be honest unless you have lots and lots of time and dont mind getting into messy issues and handling all sorts of

[ilugd] Need some idea on monitoring softwares

2009-04-29 Thread Smruti
Hi Folks, My need is to monitor a large data center with 2k odd servers(windows,*nix, physical and virtual) and 50 odd storage arrays. If the swithces and routers can be supported that's even better. Better if can be integrated with Peregrine. Now I need to find out a good monitoring software

Re: [ilugd] Need some idea on monitoring softwares

2009-04-29 Thread Amritendu Das
nagios is one of the best monitoring tool. On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 6:59 PM, Smruti smrutiman...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Folks, My need is to monitor a large data center with 2k odd servers(windows,*nix, physical and virtual) and 50 odd storage arrays. If the swithces and routers can be

Re: [ilugd] Need some idea on monitoring softwares

2009-04-29 Thread Karanbir Singh
Amritendu Das wrote: nagios is one of the best monitoring tool. its also a near total waste of time. If you need to manage those machine machines - 2k and spread across such a diverse install base, your best bet would be to start with something like opennms and then fan out from there to

Re: [ilugd] Need some idea on monitoring softwares

2009-04-29 Thread Smruti
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 6:51 AM, Amritendu Das linux.am...@gmail.comwrote: nagios is one of the best monitoring tool. Heard the same too. But I want to know how does it compared to HP OpenView, BMC PM(formerly Patrol), Big Brother and Zabbix. Can anyone let me know? Regards, Smruti -- I am

Re: [ilugd] Need some idea on monitoring softwares

2009-04-29 Thread Karanbir Singh
Smruti wrote: nagios is one of the best monitoring tool. Heard the same too. But I want to know how does it compared to HP OpenView, BMC PM(formerly Patrol), Big Brother and Zabbix. Nagios used to be a good way to do things, a few years back it was also recommended quite widely. But to be