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 <gentoo-user+bounces-124921-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@lists.gentoo.org>)
id 1QbFCu-0003Ez-SQ
for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 27 Jun 2011 17:02:45 +0000
Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1])
by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 31ABF1C024;
Mon, 27 Jun 2011 17:00:34 +0000 (UTC)
Received: from mail-fx0-f52.google.com (mail-fx0-f52.google.com [209.85.161.52])
by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C90CD1C024
for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Mon, 27 Jun 2011 17:00:28 +0000 (UTC)
Received: by fxd18 with SMTP id 18so1993574fxd.11
for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Mon, 27 Jun 2011 10:00:28 -0700 (PDT)
DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed;
d=googlemail.com; s=gamma;
h=domainkey-signature:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to
:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type
:content-transfer-encoding;
bh=s9Ed+mzr1MTfql7kMrh7YoKfyhyxBY7buZHfd2M1aoE=;
b=IQ8vXp788oBPFFlVSKdHz36MdWLOKxBFa4v0knKth/pHHfvAwQyT/Wg2ZStMSfHcV9
zPsKfvgwQWkCMvuJjcLovdgJSqueuekOte5KHblsPPbQ9/Ie2947HzqNojjkFjsAsIkC
Kz6zHWhiifVz9iKqEIhyBijKldYiDzfJVMZhg=
DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws;
d=googlemail.com; s=gamma;
h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references
:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding;
b=P3S4rrL4o5L69Ucp3pPyxoz9ulOPSbvbsHyUSRQ4BMy1w2JGFwgn8UOn6eorPvC+Ym
dkpJ6D+JiCeYQxFRudHMAMSg/eZmHLV+PtCYM0XSt+kKBfZtoL9KSlGpyFo+nY2kL5/G
mJWvJ84oY9o2nWNya63NHY6vJYc85c+Z0mGXg=
Received: by 10.223.13.69 with SMTP id b5mr9231795faa.140.1309193752179;
Mon, 27 Jun 2011 09:55:52 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from [192.168.1.67] (port-87-234-219-138.static.qsc.de [87.234.219.138])
by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id j23sm1857932fai.15.2011.06.27.09.55.50
(version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER);
Mon, 27 Jun 2011 09:55:51 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <4E08B615.8040606@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 18:55:49 +0200
From: 4k3nd0 <4k3nd0@googlemail.com>
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110617 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.11
Precedence: bulk
List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>
List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-user+help@lists.gentoo.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+unsubscribe@lists.gentoo.org>
List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+subscribe@lists.gentoo.org>
List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-user.gentoo.org>
X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] open source monitoring on gentoo
References: <4E0455CA.4040600@xunil.at> <4E083502.40409@xunil.at> <201106271733.56000.michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <201106271733.56000.michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Archives-Salt:
X-Archives-Hash: bcbf755aa0565ffcf542de9d4d2b3add
On 06/27/2011 06:33 PM, Mick wrote:
> On Monday 27 Jun 2011 08:45:06 Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
>> thanks to all for your suggestion.
>> Still not sure where to turn ...
>>
>> Stefan
>
> We can't know which one may best match your needs/expectations/preferences.
> You can spend some time looking at their documentation to get an understanding
> of how difficult it may be to configure them and then play with their online
> demos to experience the touch& feel of each.
>
> Then install the one that best matches your requirements and if your don't
> like it enough install the second best and so on. If you are prepared to get
> your hands dirty you can somewhat customise the look and feel (e.g. using
> CSS), but the monitoring engine is what will provide you with the necessary
> functionality.
>
> Personally, I ended up using Nagios because at the time it had a load of
> plugins that others did not. Once I spent a lot of time installing graphing
> engines and configuring it, I had invested too much time to ditch it and try
> something different.
>
> Thankfully, you can start afresh your quest and evaluate how each of these
> tools meets your requirements.
>
> HTH.
I agree with you, Nagios is just amazing.
Greeting's 4k3nd0