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 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 ; Mon, 27 Jun 2011 17:00:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxd18 with SMTP id 18so1993574fxd.11 for ; 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: 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 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