[ale] quick poll - what monitoring tools do you use?

[Jeff Lightner]

Sounds like the old BMC Patrol (commercial software).  It got better
after they bought Best/1 and merged in that product's way of doing
things.

 

Nagios isn't that much of a hog even though it has clients (nsclient for
Windoze and nrpe for UNIX/Linux).   I inherited the install here back in
2004 and keep finding new and exciting pieces of information.   My
favorite was when I realized that the original admin hadn't actually
enabled the second CPU on the FreeBSD box used for the Nagios master
They'd been running it hobbled for 2 years and wondering why it took so
long to poll the other systems.  I've also found plugins for various
things such as AS400 which surprised me.   One can also fairly easily
write one's own monitors so I've figured out things for cluster
monitoring that have amazed my Windoze admins who had previously been
told it couldn't be done.

 

Like I said - just wanted to get a feel for who is using what.

 

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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
To: ale at ale.org
Jonathan Rickman
Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 3:19 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] quick poll - what monitoring tools do you use?

 

On 4/19/07, Jim Popovitch <yahoo at jimpop.com> wrote: 

On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 22:50 -0400, Brian W. Neu wrote:
> Is anyone using Zenoss ?

I played with it, it was heavy on resource utilization even with few 
events. I was trying to run it in a vm system with 512Mb and dual 3.1GHz
CPUs.  That's not to say that you will experience the same, it could
have been something wrong with my configuration.  Looks promising 
however.

 

Same with Hyperic. I had it up and running for a day on a dual 2.8 box
with 1GB of RAM. Monitoring 20 Windows and 5 Linux boxes brought it to
it's knees. Not to mention the fact that it is agent based, and the
agent is written in Java. The agent was the top process on almost all of
the Windows machines and 3 of the Linux machines. 

 

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Jonathan


 

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