[gentoo-dev] LAMP Server beauty contest: server monitoring

[gentoo-dev] LAMP Server beauty contest: server monitoring

[Stuart Herbert]

Hi,

One of the things that the LAMP Server seed will install will be
something to do automatic server monitoring - CPU, RAM, swap, disk
space, bandwidth, and so on.

I'm a cacti user myself on my own boxes, but I'm interested to hear if
anyone has any strong preference for an alternative tool.  I'd prefer
it if the tool we finally choose is SNMP-based, to make it easy for
folks who want to deploy the LAMP Server in a web farm / multi-server
environment.

Please reply to the list naming your favourite tool for this job, and why.

Best regards,
Stu
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Re: [gentoo-dev] LAMP Server beauty contest: server monitoring

[Nick Devito]

On Sun, 2006-10-01 at 21:41 +0100, Stuart Herbert wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> One of the things that the LAMP Server seed will install will be
> something to do automatic server monitoring - CPU, RAM, swap, disk
> space, bandwidth, and so on.
> 
> I'm a cacti user myself on my own boxes, but I'm interested to hear if
> anyone has any strong preference for an alternative tool.  I'd prefer
> it if the tool we finally choose is SNMP-based, to make it easy for
> folks who want to deploy the LAMP Server in a web farm / multi-server
> environment.
> 
> Please reply to the list naming your favourite tool for this job, and why.
> 
> Best regards,
> Stu

I really like using rrdtool and mrtg, but, those are as user-friendly as
cacti. Cacti is a pretty decent tool though, and, I used to use it
before I switched to mrtg/rrdtool. One reason I use rrdtool in my setup
is because I need custom graphs that cacti can't provide, but, I guess
that in 95% of setups, custom graphs shouldn't be needed. And, I agree
on making it SNMP-based. SNMP is a decent standard, and, its widely used
by routers, servers, and, hell, I think my printer even has a SNMP
server running on it. Thats just my opinion

~ Nick
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Re: [gentoo-dev] LAMP Server beauty contest: server monitoring

[Robin H. Johnson]

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On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 09:41:08PM +0100, Stuart Herbert wrote:
> Please reply to the list naming your favourite tool for this job, and why.
Ok, something is not clear here at all.

Do you intend to provide all statistics via SNMPd (writing agents to
provide the data that net-snmp doesn't provide directly), 
OR are you asking about tools that can track data over time, with SNMP
being a supported data source?

I'm interested in solutions to both of these two separate items.

If your seeds can provide SNMP access to all of the data from the system
(after you write the extra agent scripts) - that would help hugely in
integrating them into existing data tracking and monitoring.

For tracking of data, I'm a fan of Munin, as it provides a significantly
simpler interface than cacti, and also offers more security with it's
separation of privileges.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] LAMP Server beauty contest: server monitoring

[Anatoly Shipitsin]

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2006/10/2, Stuart Herbert <stuart.herbert@gmail.com>:
>
> Hi,
>
> One of the things that the LAMP Server seed will install will be
> something to do automatic server monitoring - CPU, RAM, swap, disk
> space, bandwidth, and so on.
>
> I'm a cacti user myself on my own boxes, but I'm interested to hear if
> anyone has any strong preference for an alternative tool.  I'd prefer
> it if the tool we finally choose is SNMP-based, to make it easy for
> folks who want to deploy the LAMP Server in a web farm / multi-server
> environment.


May try zabbix (zabbix.com)? It's can get data from our agents, snmp,
trappers and etc more. It's can alert and create useful graphs.

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