monitoring

[Dan Wanek]

I just wanted to throw in my 2cents. I've really liked "mon". It's a perl based monitoring tool that is fairly easy to setup as well as extend for monitoring specific things. There is also quite a few monitoring modules out there that already exist.

http://www.kernel.org/software/mon/

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cheers,

Dan Wanek

[Paddy_1]

you might also want to have a look at this free tool called "RTG" which seems good.It can be downloaded from Source forge

[spanky mcfoo]

I have to second the suggestion to use "nagios" earlier. We used to use HP OpenView, which was overly complex (and expensive) for what we needed. If you want to get a page when, e.g., disks are full or load goes above X, then nagios does it best.

If you're not comfortable with gnu tools/compiling/etc., then there's a commercial product called "sitescope" (now owned by Mercury Interactive) which has similar functionality, but it's all written in java & served up via web.

MRTG is o.k., but we use cricket (http://cricket.sourceforge.net/), also based on rrdtool. Its configuration is setup differently & it seems to be more efficient than MRTG when you have thousands of monitors running.

Hope this helps!

[Peter Vandenberghe]

Hi,

You should rely try to configure Nagios first.
Monitor HTTP, SMTP, SNMP, PIN, telnet, POP3 services easily.
I also use nagios to monitor our backups.
Nagios has plugins to monitor data from MRTG and RRD.