New Group Announcement: Monitoring Systems
Greetings,
I've created the new "Monitoring Systems" group to share knowledge and experiences about Automated Monitoring Systems.
In this group we will discuss about the best or worst monitoring systems, their implementation details, technologies and languages used to create them.
What features a Monitoring System should provide and so forth.
You can reach the group at the following address: http://www.linkedin.com/e/vgh/662117/
I look forward to meeting you online!
Many Thanks!
massimo fortunat
Answers (3)
Nagios is one of the most robust monitoring systems that I have come across. Configuring Nagios is not as straight forward and it's not something that just "works" out of the box. It has a lot of plug in support for different checks and you can also write your own checks.
Chris H.
Senior Infrastructure Engineer - Central Data Pty Ltd
Best Answers in: Computers and Software (1)
I use a combination of Nagios and Cacti for monitoring - in most cases, the history and trending is the most important component of monitoring.
In the opensource world, there are some good "combined" applications like Ossim ( http://www.ossim.net/ ) - and a few of my mates keep suggesting Hobbit ( http://hobbitmon.sourceforge.net/ ) as well. Don't forget BigBrother and BigSister - although I've used these, I'm still stuck with Nagios+Cacti ( with Ossim on some development networks now).
Mariano I.
Open Source, Cloud Computing and Desktop Virtualization nerd
Best Answers in: Enterprise Software (1), Computers and Software (1)
I've tried some up to now. What I can say for sure is that if you have Linux and shell scripting, Nagios is the way to go: there is a set of integrated plug-ins, there are others on the web that work great, and it is possible to develop whatever you want and integrate it into the architecture. The final result, is that you could even monitor if the paper is going to finish for a printer, of it the temperature of a datacenter room is too low.
All this has to be considered thinking that it is free and it is so used that the development is continuously growing (there are companies that are creating embedded hardware solutions for IT monitoring). There are also good functionalities to generate SLA reports based on different criteria(filtering methods.
More, the open source world offers other tools that you can integrate with Nagios to create a complete IT monitoring and management environment (ossim, big brother, big sister, splunk, and many others. If you want, I can provide a longer list). There are also asset management, help desk and trouble ticketing tools that could be integrated.
If you are available to pay for a simpler to use solution, then I've tried the Manage Engine (it's modular) and Argent solutions that have almost every type of checking already included and GUI/Web based administration tools to implement the checks that you want to run. Obviously, since these are commercial solutions, you have almost EVERYTHING already included within the application (reporting, SLA, etc.).
Hope this helps. If you need additional info, just let me know.
