Hi Atom. The 3 Products that you mentioned would be the ones I would have recommended to you. I have used Nagios and Cacti combined and I feel the setup was quite simple. As far as Zenoss is concerned, I have been using there product for over 2 years and can only say great things about it, but I would have to agree with you that it is buggy since development is quite rapid. I feel almost any OpenSource product that you choose to go with that integrates both products (metrics and monitoring) will be a steep learning curve. Zenoss http://www.zenoss.com/ Hyperic http://www.hyperic.com/ Zabbix http://www.zabbix.com/ OpenNMS http://www.opennms.org/index.php/Main_Page GroundWorks http://www.groundworkopensource.com Pandora http://pandorafms.org/
Jonathan Nicol wrote: > Hi Atom, > > We use Nagios, plus PNP (http://www.pnp4nagios.org/pnp/start) for > converting performance data into RRDs for metrics. Most Nagios plugins > provide performance data, and if not it's fairly trivial to add them. > > I think Groundwork also does something similar > (http://groundworkopensource.com > ) > > There's also a Nagios plugin for Cacti that I've been considering > (http://trac2.assembla.com/npc > ) > > > HTH, > > Jonathan > > > > > On Mar 4, 2009, at 2:52 PM, 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. >> >> Can you recommend or mention some other products that you have used >> or heard about? >> >> -- >> Perfection is just a word I use occasionally with mustard. >> --Atom Powers-- >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss >> This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators >> http://lopsa.org/ >> > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
