Pingdom also has a simple API, so you can roll the pingdom checks into a
proper nagios/zenoss check as well. This is especially helpful if you end
up managing multiple sites like this.

On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 4:49 AM, Adam Compton <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 1:13 PM, Tom Perrine <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Dear monitoring gurus,
>>
>> What would you use for a monitoring solution for a *very* small site?
>> Say no more than 3 servers, just the basic HTTP, SMTP and DNS
>> services?
>>
>> In the "olden days" I would just do Nagios and be done, but....
>> What's the current "state of the art" in open source monitoring?
>>
>> I would like:
>> up/down
>> graphs of usage (like SMTP connections, DNS queries, disk space, etc)
>> some kind of alerting (email or SMS) would be a "nice to have"
>>
>
> I'm a big fan of Zenoss [1]; it handles monitoring and alerting,
> performance counters/graphing, SNMP traps, event log collection, and
> several other things, and supports both Unix and Windows servers. It also
> does auto-discovery; tell it what subnets to watch and it will periodically
> find and start monitoring new machines and equipment as they appear.
>
> They have a VMware appliance [2] to help you get up and running quickly
> and easily.
>
> - Adam Compton
>
> [1]: http://community.zenoss.org/index.jspa
> [2]: http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/155743
>
>
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