From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QbElf-0000fW-NW for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 27 Jun 2011 16:34:36 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 279481C0B5; Mon, 27 Jun 2011 16:33:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wy0-f181.google.com (mail-wy0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD3F21C0B5 for ; Mon, 27 Jun 2011 16:33:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyh22 with SMTP id 22so1988419wyh.40 for ; Mon, 27 Jun 2011 09:33:14 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent :references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=Ei91UjGYpSHS2RHrWSuPBaXWaKbtITPdZpZivCGfU08=; b=onEGGlRktazFpLiRZCuASTA9ZjjPfCX0CBusJ02IJkFV7VZZB2TuBIV01h8eB63kBR hxgL0eqprc6OVNr6BKBiicOMMtxpjDjElOJKrW2+DwfDLF2XrjBEfDuU/xUwrypAzsvD rCPRLxYjXRifM56oGMF1N6/hq0zH4YwMthzNc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=TQkXbX0LagxW+mLKquirA0PO3HX49BYasGl8bupw0BrIq67zbsz22duS2ta8plk8bC 2ZXA5VAOYwLbUxbxaJlQyV7HJ2G3+NiQ8Wxq7oJ22AUCSBQZINX9uTa5z1aV5nj9ch2X UMi39JH0QCqk62uocuVGfdvKCtuInqsYclbNc= Received: by 10.227.178.135 with SMTP id bm7mr5575336wbb.52.1309192394102; Mon, 27 Jun 2011 09:33:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dell_xps.localnet ([213.123.142.221]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id ge4sm4213096wbb.13.2011.06.27.09.33.10 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 27 Jun 2011 09:33:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] open source monitoring on gentoo Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 17:33:45 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/2.6.38-gentoo-r6; KDE/4.6.3; x86_64; ; ) References: <4E0455CA.4040600@xunil.at> <4E083502.40409@xunil.at> In-Reply-To: <4E083502.40409@xunil.at> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1636401.6hEudxrXio"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201106271733.56000.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 876c2647661ddbaf394d3825a85714a4 --nextPart1636401.6hEudxrXio Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Monday 27 Jun 2011 08:45:06 Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > thanks to all for your suggestion. > Still not sure where to turn ... >=20 > Stefan We can't know which one may best match your needs/expectations/preferences.= =20 You can spend some time looking at their documentation to get an understand= ing=20 of how difficult it may be to configure them and then play with their onlin= e=20 demos to experience the touch & feel of each. Then install the one that best matches your requirements and if your don't= =20 like it enough install the second best and so on. If you are prepared to g= et=20 your hands dirty you can somewhat customise the look and feel (e.g. using=20 CSS), but the monitoring engine is what will provide you with the necessary= =20 functionality. Personally, I ended up using Nagios because at the time it had a load of=20 plugins that others did not. Once I spent a lot of time installing graphin= g=20 engines and configuring it, I had invested too much time to ditch it and tr= y=20 something different. Thankfully, you can start afresh your quest and evaluate how each of these= =20 tools meets your requirements. HTH. =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart1636401.6hEudxrXio Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAk4IsPMACgkQVTDTR3kpaLYhrQCfd/ginQzPZKpJwgHJcgrarhGX /fgAmgP65psejlLN5m5Jl/owPOOSOOAB =zYph -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1636401.6hEudxrXio--