[gentoo-user] Which network monitoring?

[gentoo-user] Which network monitoring?

[Pandu Poluan]

Hello users!

I am transitioning my infrastructure back-ends from Windows to Gentoo
Linux. The next server to be transitioned is our infrastructure
monitoring server.

Currently, we're using WebWatchBot. Its abilities that we use are:
- Monitoring Internet connection up/down (we have 4 Internet connections)
- Monitoring website (which we host on a 3rd party webhosting) by
searching for a keyword using HTTP
- Monitoring free space on other servers (mostly Windows-based, thuse
we use WMI)
- Monitoring services on Windows-based servers (again, WMI)
- Sending alerts to selected groups (PICs) when failure exceeds a
threshold (e.g., Systems group will receive alerts for their database
servers, Infrastructure group will receive all alerts)

Can you recommend a suitable monitoring system for Gentoo?

Thanks beforehand.

Rgds,


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Re: [gentoo-user] Which network monitoring?

[kashani]

On 4/3/2011 7:10 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote:
> Hello users!
>
> I am transitioning my infrastructure back-ends from Windows to Gentoo
> Linux. The next server to be transitioned is our infrastructure
> monitoring server.
>
> Currently, we're using WebWatchBot. Its abilities that we use are:
> - Monitoring Internet connection up/down (we have 4 Internet connections)
> - Monitoring website (which we host on a 3rd party webhosting) by
> searching for a keyword using HTTP
> - Monitoring free space on other servers (mostly Windows-based, thuse
> we use WMI)
> - Monitoring services on Windows-based servers (again, WMI)
> - Sending alerts to selected groups (PICs) when failure exceeds a
> threshold (e.g., Systems group will receive alerts for their database
> servers, Infrastructure group will receive all alerts)
>
> Can you recommend a suitable monitoring system for Gentoo?

	Nagios still works well for me. And it'll do some wmi stuff, IIRC. I've 
been using a combination of Mysql backed Puppet with stored resources 
for system management. Then push Nagios configs to the Nagios server via 
tags in Puppet. Still working to get it right, but it's about there. 
Next step is to get collectd working with Nagios as well.

kashani

[gentoo-user] Re: Which network monitoring?

[James]

Pandu Poluan <pandu <at> poluan.info> writes:


> Can you recommend a suitable monitoring system for Gentoo?

www.JFFNMS.org

"Being written in PHP, JFFNMS can be customized to suit 
different pieces of equipment.  Basically if the device 
has something interesting to monitor via SNMP either a 
state (up/down) or a value, JFFNMS can be made to monitor it."

It's very flexible and lightweight. Under fresh new development.
Really cool for SNMP, routers, managed switches, servers
ups, and "unique" devices. etc etc. Syslog monitoring too.
Easy to extend to new or unique devices (php).

There should be an updated ebuild coming out any day 
(thanks titan9fold)!

Postgresql 9 support real soon....


hth,
James

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Which network monitoring?

[Mick]

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On Monday 04 April 2011 14:44:37 James wrote:
> Pandu Poluan <pandu <at> poluan.info> writes:
> > Can you recommend a suitable monitoring system for Gentoo?
> 
> www.JFFNMS.org
> 
> "Being written in PHP, JFFNMS can be customized to suit
> different pieces of equipment.  Basically if the device
> has something interesting to monitor via SNMP either a
> state (up/down) or a value, JFFNMS can be made to monitor it."
> 
> It's very flexible and lightweight. Under fresh new development.
> Really cool for SNMP, routers, managed switches, servers
> ups, and "unique" devices. etc etc. Syslog monitoring too.
> Easy to extend to new or unique devices (php).
> 
> There should be an updated ebuild coming out any day
> (thanks titan9fold)!
> 
> Postgresql 9 support real soon....
> 
> 
> hth,
> James

Personally, I opted for Nagios because back then there weren't (m)any other 
applications with such a high number of plugins that could monitor as much as 
Nagios does.  These days there more options to investigate and find what suits 
you best:

http://www.learncomputer.com/open-source-network-tools/
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Regards,
Mick

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