We're using Groundwork and are pretty happy with it. You can get
performance graphs and you can combine graphs (same service/multiple hosts,
same hosts/multiple metric, or more). We're on the professional
version (so we can get quick support on the whole package) and I can't
remember if the option to combine them is in the community option.
Also, they have just moved up to nagios 3.x.
The tricks I found on the install were
1.) when it shows an example of the hosts file it wants - that is quite
literal. You must have the hosts file exactly as shown (no comments)
2.) don't mess with the version of mysql. Use the one they reference, not
a more recent one.
That was about it. The "bookshelf" for help is pretty well done, too.
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On Wed, 4 Mar 2009, Meenoo Shivdasani wrote:
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't Nagios do a seperate SNMP query for
> every check. This could potentially increase the amount of SNMP traffic if a
> host has a lot of metrics; and most will. Still, something that ties Nagios
> and Cacti together seems like a promising approach.
>
> Interestingly, Zabbix seems to be the only one with a FreeBSD port.
Nagios has a FreeBSD port, but you probably already knew that.
Check out the NRPE add-on for Nagios -- anything the machine being
queried can ask itself can be reported back through NRPE. The plugin
connects to the machine being monitored, the NRPE daemon executes the
requested command, and the plugin delivers the response back to the
monitoring server. You can also roll your own scripts -- see
http://www.nagiosexchange.org for examples. I've used NRPE in lieu of
remote SNMP queries in the past for *nix servers.
If you add on nagiosgraph or nagiosstat, you can get metrics.
M
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