On 2009 Mar 4, at 17:52, Atom Powers wrote:
I have a relatively small shop, about 30 servers in three locations, and I need help finding a service monitor that can notify me when something is amis, or about to go badly. Specifically I am looking for a product that can send alerts when a service fails a check and keep metrics for all the servers that it monitors.

I've tried several products, and none really do what I want. (I prefer OpenSource, but it's not a requirement. Running on *BSD/Linux *is*.)
Nagios is good for alerting, but it's doesn't keep metrics.
Cacti is good at keeping metrics, but it won't alert me if something is wrong. ZenOss does both, but I have found it difficult to manage and buggy, and the commercial version is expensive.

I use mon ( http://mon.wiki.kernel.org ) --- also, it should be fairly easy to hook cacti to nagios.

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brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] [email protected]
system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] [email protected]
electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university    KF8NH


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