Network/Server monitoring.
Ben Boulanger
ben at blackavar.com
Mon Feb 16 14:36:41 EST 2004
On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Travis Roy wrote:
> I would like to switch to something linux based. I'm installing Nagios
> right now on my home server to tinker with it and see how it compairs. I
> was just wondering what people on the list have tried and what they would
> suggest I take a look at.
Nagios is nice... but man it can get complex. I scrapped it because it
was just too much of a pain to get it running just right.
> I need it to not only monitor servers by ping, but also services on the
> machine, as well as CPU/Memory usage (via SNMP most likely) and routers
> and switches (also via SNMP).
I scrapped it in favor of big brother - very simple, very easy. There's a
few nice addons that can be found at deadcat.net. The other thing I did
was replace MRTG with Avalon. This is far and away the easiest and nicest
program I've found like this yet. And it's free..
http://www.bb4.com
http://www.deadcat.net
http://freshmeat.net/projects/percival
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