We found a product call Up.Time (http://www.uptimesoftware.com/) that
works well for us. We like it because:
1. It ties into VCenter and immediately starts basic monitoring of new VMs,
2. For windows machines it uses WMI so no agent needed
3. The agent is small for non-windows machines
4. Has a portal to Scrutinizer for NetFlow (they resell Scrutinizer)
5. SNMP for switches
6. Inexpensive compared to options like Zenoss
7. Lots of pre-made checks for applications.
cheers,
ski
On 03/22/2013 07:52 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) wrote:
I've used zenoss before. Didn't like it. We had problems with the
accuracy of metrics (I think it buffer overflowed or something, getting
disk usage on a several TB volume, reported things like -50% full) ...
even though "technically" it could allow you to create custom metrics
via ssh and so forth, it was confusing, never got that working, etc.
I haven't used any of these others.
Looking at the nagios site, it looks like, you're supposed to install it
on the server you monitor. Installing httpd, mysql, configuring
selinux, etc. Which is not what I want.
I want to install a centralized monitoring / alerting system, and deploy
a tiny little plugin (or something) to each of the systems to be
monitored. The production systems already run apache, mysql, etc, and I
don't want any dependencies on any installation packages to conflict or
cause any disruption to existing production services. If I need to
configure httpd on the system to be monitored, it's a nonstarter.
I primarily care about linux systems (but other OSes are nice to support
too). Want alerts, both predictive and reactionary (notify me if a
system is down, but also notify me when disk usage is over 90% or the
CPU stays over 95% for 10 minutes, or the system begins thrashing swap,
etc, so I can hopefully avoid system down.) etc.
Thanks for suggestions.
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